The B.C. Government is not saying whether it will enforce cannabis laws on Indigenous land.
In response to an unlicensed cannabis store in Kamloops – Boomers Buds – being raided, closing down and moving nearby to Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc, the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General says it does have enforcement authority on reserve and treaty lands.
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But Kyla Lee with Acumen Law tells NL News it’s still a grey area, in part because Indigenous governments have been left out of getting any share of cannabis tax revenues.
“It’s also arguable that because reserves are technically federal land, the provincial government and their ‘cannabis police’ don’t have any authority to enter First Nations reserves to raid the stores that are operating there and to ticket them under the existing provincial regime. And the argument would be that those people are governed by a federal regime, and there are no federal licenses for the sale of cannabis, so they’re technically not breaking any rules,” Lee says.
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