Nebraska residents won’t be able to purchase cannabis on a tribal reservation that’s setting up regulated legal sales, Gov. Jim Pillen said Thursday.
That prompted the Omaha Tribe to fire back and inform Pillen he has no authority, an exchange that sets the stage for a showdown amid a slow rollout of medical marijuana in the state.
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During a tense news conference Thursday, both Pillen and state Attorney General Mike Hilgers threw cold water on the idea that the Omaha Tribe might allow state residents to obtain cannabis on tribal land.
“There’s not going to be Nebraskans going into the Omaha Tribe and buying, uh, recreational marijuana,” Pillen said, according to WOWT-6.
“We’ll take whatever steps it is to keep … that from
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