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- By Darren Thompson
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The Red Lake Nation’s tribal council voted on Tuesday to legalize recreational marijuana on the reservation and plans to begin selling it to tribal and non-tribal members on August 1.
The tribe’s medical marijuana dispensary, NativeCare, announced on Facebook that it will begin selling recreational marijuana products to adults older than 21 years. The decision would make Native Care the first dispensary to sell recreational cannabis in the state of Minnesota. Other recreational marijuana sales in Minnesota aren’t expected for another year or more.
On May 30, Minn. Governor Tim Walz signed a bill that legalized adult-use cannabis in the state and established a new Office of Cannabis Management to regulate the new industry. On August 1, Minnesota will become the 23rd state in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana. Under the new law, adult consumers can possess up to 2 ounces of cannabis flower, 8 grams of concentrate and 800 milligrams of edible product.
“Throughout our time in office, Governor Walz and I have been committed to building strong government-to-government relationships with the eleven Tribal Nations within Minnesota,” Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a White Earth Ojibwe tribal citizen, wrote in a statement to Native News Online. “The law Governor…