The Wrap: Cannabis bust on Indigenous land

Capt Gregory Prickett Looks like 45 was screwing over the indigenous people too.

..."Portland-based criminal defense attorney Leland Berger, who last year advised the Oglala Sioux Tribe after it passed a cannabis ordinance, notes that Justice Department priorities for marijuana in Indian Country were outlined in writing under President Barack Obama then overturned under President Donald Trump, with little written public guidance since."...

..."In late September, Bureau of Indian Affairs officers confiscated nine cannabis plants from a home garden at Picuris Pueblo that was tended by Charles Farden, a local resident since childhood who is not Native. The 54-year-old is enrolled in the state's medical marijuana program to ease post-traumatic stress and anxiety."...

The federal and state is such, in my opinion , mishmash legal tangle it is insanity. People legally selling marijuana at state level can’t use banks that are federally controlled. Indian reservations seem to fall into these gray areas. Thanks for an interesting post Capt Prickett.

This, I am sorry to say, is not something I had considered. Even though pot is still illegal at the federal level, Native American nations do not fall under normal federal jurisdiction. They are essentially sovereign land. So if the state they are in decriminalizes pot, and the sovereign government decriminalizes it, I would think that BIA would have to abide by the Native governments decision.