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By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Daily Gleaner A raid earlier this month on an Indigenous off-reserve cannabis shop in New Brunswick has raised the ire of a former national First Nations leader. The L’Nuk Lounge in Moncton, N.B., which opened three years ago, has been raided numerous times by provincial Public Safety officers, with the owners trying to keep one step ahead of the authorities by relocating their shop. Run by three brothers who hail from Ugpi’Ganjig, or Eel River Bar First Nation, a Mi’kmaw community near Dalhousie, now part of Heron Bay, in northern New Brunswick about 300 kilometres away, the lounge caters to people who want to buy their marijuana products outside of the provincial government’s sanctioned Cannabis NB stores, whose prices are much more… <\/p>\n

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By John Chilibeck, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Daily Gleaner A raid earlier this month on an Indigenous off-reserve cannabis shop in New Brunswick has raised the ire of a former national First Nations leader. The L’Nuk Lounge in Moncton, N.B., which opened three years ago, has been raided numerous times by provincial Public Safety officers, with the owners trying to keep one step ahead of the authorities by relocating their shop. Run by three brothers who hail from Ugpi’Ganjig, or Eel River Bar First Nation, a Mi’kmaw community near Dalhousie, now part of Heron Bay, in northern New Brunswick about 300 kilometres away, the lounge caters to people who want to buy their marijuana products outside of the provincial government’s sanctioned Cannabis NB stores, whose prices are much more... <\/p>\n

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