By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Indian tribes are now allowed to grow and sell marijuana on their sovereign lands under the same federal guidelines that apply to four states where pot is legal for recreational use, the Justice Department announced Thursday, Bloomberg reports.
The Justice Department said federal laws banning marijuana will no longer be enforced.
“The tribes have the sovereign right to set the code on their reservations,” said Timothy Purdon, the U.S. attorney for North Dakota and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Subcommittee on Native American Issues.
The decision to legalize marijuana will ultimately fall on tribal governments.
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What, why Indians and not the rest of us? You say OK to the gamblers but it is not OK for Rastafarian, or anyone else that looks toward the spiritual side of relaxing and spiritually talking among friends?