Some MT tribes look, others leap, into cannabis | 406 Politics

“You’ve got two people doing the same activity in a private home on the reservation, one is breaking the law and one is not,” Lamson said. “There seems to be an untenable contradiction.” Historically, tribes have been somewhat insulated when they pursue marijuana legalization in states that have already done so, said Monte Mills, the director of the American Indian Law Clinic at the University of Montana’s law school. Presidential administrations, too, can set a more friendly tone through the U.S. Department of Justice; the Obama Administration relaxed its enforcement on marijuana in Indian Country, but the Trump Administration reversed…

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