Indigenous Hemp & Cannabis Farmers Cooperative
The Indigenous Hemp and Cannabis Farmers Cooperative was created in 2022, to support the development of seeds, Indigenous standards, cultivation, value added processing, appropriate technologies and fair-trade markets. We are interested in serving farmers, and ensuring tribal participation in the hemp and cannabis market, as well as the benefits to come to the plant and the community.
Let My People Grow
We support tribal policies which legalize and promote tribal farmers to grow hemp and cannabis. We also support state legalization of marijuana and hemp, and support the growth of tribal farmers, and integrated policies for health, well being and economics.
We support the right of tribal families and tribal farmers to grow hemp and cannabis and encourage tribes and states to protect the farmer.
We support tribal members owning marijuana dispensaries.
We oppose the ownership of the cannabis and hemp economy by large corporate interests, as this will continue the theft of the tribal economy. Instead, we see hemp and cannabis as an opportunity to restore healthy lands, protect water, reduce carbon and create well being in our tribal nations as a part of an integrated strategy for restorative economics.
Why? Because that’s what justice looks like, and that’s the New Green Revolution.
New Green Revolution
Cannabis
Justice and Economics
Nationally and in Minnesota, there’s work in equity in the industry. Nationally there are initiatives like that of Karim Webb, in Los Angeles, working to secure dispensary licenses for people of color. And support for the development of those dispensaries. The most lucrative element of the industry is in consumer retail sales, and people of color should benefit from this new and booming industry.
In Minnesota, there’s a coalition called The Great Rise, which is committed to cannabis equity in the state, which is access to the cannabis economy for people of color through business ownership.
New Green Revolution
Hemp
Hemp is the answer to many of the ecological, economic, and quality of life issues for our people, from healthy housing, healthy lands, clothing and more. Hemp is a variety of cannabis sativa which contains less than 0.3% THC and is grown for food, medicinal, oil, fiber, paper and building products. Our focus work is on industrial hemp varieties, but we encourage everyone to understand the many different uses and varieties of hemp in the US.
Tribal Hemp and Cannabis Policies need to be most beneficial to the tribal membership and social equity policies developed by the state and tribes should not exclude tribal members, as has happened to other tribes throughout the US. Tribal Hemp and Cannabis Policies must protect the farmer, grower, land, and all resources.