Native Americans Now Have Full Legalization of Marijuana On Reservation Lands

[SlyPokerDog]

The United States Justice Department just announced that it will instruct all U.S. attorneys to no longer prevent any Native American tribes from growing, or selling marijuana on reservation land.

This includes reservations within states that prohibit marijuana use, as the reservations are sovereign entities, apart from the states that surround them.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/09/native-americans-granted-legalization-on-reservation-lands/#

 

[riverman]

Finally! The peace pipe will have true meaning again!

 

[PDXFonz]

Chief Smokem Reef

 

[riverman]

Grab my beads, blankets and hatchets and head for the res....it's trading time!

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Pot legal at all Indian casinos? Nice.

 

[riverman]

No wonder these guys look so happy

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Seem like a significant move towards legalization nationwide. Sort of a test case....??

 

[julius]

No wonder these guys look so happy
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the only thing I took from that cover was just how horrible SI is at making predictions.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Legalize everything

 

[MARIS61]

Seems a cowardly, ass-backwards approach to it all.

Extending more freedom to a bunch of foreigners before Real Americans.

 

[stampedehero]

My take........ SI Off course. ...... Indian Nations right on course.

 

[stampedehero]

My prediction Last State to pass total legality is ..........NJ

 

[julius]

Seems a cowardly, ass-backwards approach to it all.

Extending more freedom to a bunch of foreigners before Real Americans.

wait, character or not, you aren't actually suggesting that Native Americans are a bunch of "foreigners", are you?

 

[dviss1]

wait, character or not, you aren't actually suggesting that Native Americans are a bunch of "foreigners", are you?

I sure hope not. Natives are the REAL Americans.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

It's not as cut and dry...

They're sovereign nations and have their own laws. As of today there are no tribes who allow this even though it's been voted on with several tribes already.

 

[MARIS61]

wait, character or not, you aren't actually suggesting that Native Americans are a bunch of "foreigners", are you?

So-called "Native Americans" living on sovereign reservation land, under sovereign rule, denying me equal rights on their sovereign soil, are most definitely foreigners living on foreign soil. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They obviously don't want to be Americans. Neither do my cousins in Canada.

Personal choice is a wonderful freedom. I had the option to be a dual citizen since my mother is a Canadian citizen. I chose not to, I don't live on Canadian soil, and I don't call myself a Canadian.

I have friends who live on the res and embrace the past, and I have friends who left the res behind to become Real Americans and embrace the future.

 

[jlprk]

A state can make selling and growing economically un-cost-effective by legislating a forbidding tax rate on reservation marijuana.

If you think they are sovereign...Washington State allowed tax-free cigarette sales on reservations until about 2008, when they legislated that the stores had to pay sales tax, either to the state or the reservation. My ex-wife's former employers from the 1980s went to prison in about 2010.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

So-called "Native Americans" living on sovereign reservation land, under sovereign rule, denying me equal rights on their sovereign soil, are most definitely foreigners living on foreign soil. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They obviously don't want to be Americans. Neither do my cousins in Canada.

Personal choice is a wonderful freedom. I had the option to be a dual citizen since my mother is a Canadian citizen. I chose not to, I don't live on Canadian soil, and I don't call myself a Canadian.

I have friends who live on the res and embrace the past, and I have friends who left the res behind to become Real Americans and embrace the future.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Meth is legal in some places, no?

I mean, it seems like there's enough use in Central Oregon that it has to be legal. Right?

 

[riverman]

Meth is legal in some places, no?

I mean, it seems like there's enough use in Central Oregon that it has to be legal. Right?

I can't think of another small business you could operate from a trailer.

 

[MARIS61]

A state can make selling and growing economically un-cost-effective by legislating a forbidding tax rate on reservation marijuana.

If you think they are sovereign...Washington State allowed tax-free cigarette sales on reservations until about 2008, when they legislated that the stores had to pay sales tax, either to the state or the reservation. My ex-wife's former employers from the 1980s went to prison in about 2010.

According to NARF:
All Indians are subject to federal income taxes. As sovereign entities, tribal governments have the power to levy taxes on reservation lands. Some tribes do and some don’t. As a result, Indians and non-Indians may or may not pay sales taxes on goods and services purchased on the reservation depending on the tribe. However, whenever a member of an Indian tribe conducts business off the reservation, that person, like everyone else, pays both state and local taxes. State income taxes are not paid on reservation or trust lands.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

I can't think of another small business you could operate from a trailer.

Food carts?!?!

 

[julius]

So-called "Native Americans" living on sovereign reservation land, under sovereign rule, denying me equal rights on their sovereign soil, are most definitely foreigners living on foreign soil. Not that there's anything wrong with that. They obviously don't want to be Americans. Neither do my cousins in Canada.

Personal choice is a wonderful freedom. I had the option to be a dual citizen since my mother is a Canadian citizen. I chose not to, I don't live on Canadian soil, and I don't call myself a Canadian.

I have friends who live on the res and embrace the past, and I have friends who left the res behind to become Real Americans and embrace the future.

Jesus Joseph and Mary that is some crazy shit right there.

 

[MARIS61]

Meth is legal in some places, no?

I mean, it seems like there's enough use in Central Oregon that it has to be legal. Right?

It seems to have fallen out of fashion here. Although some Portlanders and Southern Oregonians have been arrested here lately.

The illegals routinely caught heading north on hwy97 and I5 keep coming, but they're on their way to Portland apparently.


http://koin.com/2014/04/11/60k-meth-found-trunk-speeding-car/

http://koin.com/2014/10/04/speeding-car-yields-20-pounds-of-liquid-meth/

http://koin.com/2014/10/06/4-5-pounds-of-meth-seized-on-i-5/

http://koin.com/2015/07/15/lola-sniffs-out-meth-heroin-during-traffic-stop/

 

[MARIS61]

Jesus Joseph and Mary that is some crazy shit right there.

That's the tangled mess you get when you negotiate treaties that create sovereign governments that are landlocked inside a larger government.

 

[jlprk]

According to NARF:
All Indians are subject to federal income taxes. As sovereign entities, tribal governments have the power to levy taxes on reservation lands. Some tribes do and some don’t. As a result, Indians and non-Indians may or may not pay sales taxes on goods and services purchased on the reservation depending on the tribe. However, whenever a member of an Indian tribe conducts business off the reservation, that person, like everyone else, pays both state and local taxes. State income taxes are not paid on reservation or trust lands.

Okay, this cigarette store was just off the Swinomish reservation. It was well-known for decades, but then the State changed its law to crack down on the owners, the Wilbur family.

 

[julius]

That's the tangled mess you get when you negotiate treaties that create sovereign governments that are landlocked inside a larger government.

I was talking about what you believe is the truth.

 

[riverman]

Food carts?!?!

Fronts for meth dealers

 

[MARIS61]

I was talking about what you believe is the truth.

No, you were tossing out a vague, unsupportable personal insult.

Please attempt to dispute any part of my post you think is untrue.

 

[julius]

No, you were tossing out a vague, unsupportable personal insult.

Please attempt to dispute any part of my post you think is untrue.

sorry, it's just not worth taking your comments seriously. Go back to talking about how beautiful central Oregon is and how there's no crime, all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.