Good Leaf Dispensary is recreational, although that wasn’t the initial plan for the store. The plant would only be sold to medical facilities, labs, government agencies, academic and educational entities.
This was to lease and develop about 20 acres of Tribal land, with an objective to grow marijuana under a special Drug Enforcement Administration growing permit. Regis Mohawk Tribe in December entered into a joint development agreement with cannabis growing pharmaceutical arm MMJ BioPharma Cultivation Inc. “We’ve had funders who wanted to come in and (implement) medical marijuana,” Jock said. According to Jock, Akwesasne’s original government has been developing regulations pertaining to medical marijuana since 2010.
