The Justice Department will investigate claims made by North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis that the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians is marketing cannabis products to children and moving marijuana across jurisdictional boundaries.
Eastern Band Principal Chief Michell Hicks denied that the program violates federal law, according to the Asheville Citizen Times.
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During the Senate’s Oct. 7 oversight hearing on the Department of Justice, Tillis shifted the discussion to the Great Smoky Cannabis Co.
The program, the South’s only Indigenous cannabis initiative, came under scrutiny as Tillis presented Halloween-themed marketing materials and an aerial photograph of a cannabis farm displayed on posterboard.
“There’s a growing operation in Western North Carolina that is part of tribal lands. The problem is that I can’t find
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