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‘Our own grey areas:’ First Nations navigate hazy cannabis retail jurisdictions More than two years after Ottawa legalized cannabis, 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 their communities’ recently opened stores: As signatories to Treaty 4, Pheasant Rump Nakota Nation and Zagime (Sakimay) Anishinabeck have the sovereign right to do as they wish with business on their own lands.

Noel busseGord wyantArthur white crummeyLynn acooseIra mcarthurDwight newmanZagime lynn acooseYale belangerZagime anishinabekZagime sakimay anishinabeckDon morganUniversity of lethbridgeUniversity of saskatchewanMinistry of justiceCanada researchGaming authority