native american cannabis

Mary Jane Oatman, an icon in the cannabis industry and a leader in her community, is on a mission to spread the word about the benefits of cannabis and to ensure that Native American voices are heard and traditions respected in the burgeoning legal cannabis market. Oatman’s connection to...

Canndigenous, the Native American-owned cannabis company and hemp farm led by national nonprofit Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association founder Rob Pero is making its first foray into THC.  Canndigenous, which launched in 2021 as the first independent Indigenous-owned hemp...

The first retail cannabis dispensaries owned by the Seneca Nation in New York and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians in Michigan, opened in April, creating over 30 jobs and a pipeline of opportunity for cultivators, caregivers and product manufacturers in their states. These dispensaries...

Indigenous cannabis ventures have grown in incremental prominence since the Squaxin Island tribe opened the first tribal retail location in the U.S., Elevation. Cristala Mussato-Allen (Caddo Nation) and executive director at business development and community education venture Native Workplace, Inc...