By Rosemary Godin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cape Breton Post Former senator Dan Christmas says that little was put in place to include the First Nations communities when cannabis was first legalized in 2018 \u2014 and that\u2019s causing problems. \u201cCannabis retailers in my community (of Membertou) had no rules to follow,\u201d he told the standing Senate committee for Indigenous People recently. \u201cWe basically had an unregulated industry at the beginning. It was because of all those issues and all of the community problems that arose, that we are doing this backwards.\u201d COMMON RULES\u00a0 He said in Nova Scotia, there has been no opportunity to develop a common set of rules as has happened in other provinces such as Alberta where regulations are left up to the municipalities. \u201cIt\u2019s like trying… <\/p>\n
By Rosemary Godin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Cape Breton Post Former senator Dan Christmas says that little was put in place to include the First Nations communities when cannabis was first legalized in 2018 \u2014 and that\u2019s causing problems. \u201cCannabis retailers in my community (of Membertou) had no rules to follow,\u201d he told the standing Senate committee for Indigenous People recently. \u201cWe basically had an unregulated industry at the beginning. It was because of all those issues and all of the community problems that arose, that we are doing this backwards.\u201d COMMON RULES\u00a0 He said in Nova Scotia, there has been no opportunity to develop a common set of rules as has happened in other provinces such as Alberta where regulations are left up to the municipalities. \u201cIt\u2019s like trying... <\/p>\n