'Our own grey areas:' First Nations navigate hazy cannabis retail jurisdictions
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter More than two years after Ottawa legalized weed, Saskatchewan’s green industry has grown into a jurisdictional grey zone. First Nations in the province’s southeast are growing into the retail end of the market _ running four pot shops on their reserve lands, but are foregoing the provincially-mandated permitting process. And the feds keep leaving the ball in the province’s court, saying it’s up to Saskatchewan to regulate, while seemingly not touching the on-reserve pot shop issues. Yet the issue is black and white for two chiefs who spoke about ...