Six Nations community cannabis meeting questions role of local cannabis commission as industry explains itself

Councillor Helen Miller was one of the band councillors who attended the community meeting. (Photos by Jim C. Powless)

By Tara Lindemann Writer The growing and contro-versial Six Nations cannabis industry is raising not only some tempers, but turned a sometimes heated public meeting at the Six Nations community hall last week into a learning session and love in for the industry. The meeting was organized by local woman Rhonda Martin who, concerned over the rapid growth of the local cannabis industry, focused in on one massive cannabis operation on Fourth Line on the outskirts of Ohsweken. The operation has raised the ire of its neighbours who were surprised to find it growing up almost in their backyards. But instead of the meet-ing raising tempers it turned into an educational aware-ness and support session for the local industry as indus-try owners took to the floor to explain their operations…

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