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AKWESASNE — A Native cannabis company is using a self-sustaining process to grow up to 2,000 marijuana plants that yield quality bud, refining part of the harvest into concentrates with
More than 100 marijuana dispensaries, run out of gas stations and wooden shacks, have opened on Native land while New York State awaits its first official retail licenses.
New York State still has not come up with plans for retail sales of cannabis. Adult-recreational cannabis is legal for people age 21 or older. But the retail market for marijuana is still on old. However, sales of cannabis products are legal on Native American land.
The Mohawks, like tribes in other states, moved quickly to set up their own regulations. That's OK with state officials, but federal regulators' position is less clear.
ST. REGIS MOHAWK RESERVATION, N.Y. -- As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales of buds and edibles are already flourishing on some Native American land around the state.