On Friday, October 24, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and FBI agents, state and country authorities, undercover agents and policemen, some wearing military gear, raided and destroyed industrial hemp crops – 30,000 plants total – grown by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, according to Fox 11 News in Wisconsin.
The tribe legalized growing low THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) industrial hemp on its land in May this year, reported CBS News. The hemp crops were supposed to be protected by the Farm Bill according to the tribe’spress release. But now the feds are saying that the plants were actually a type of high grade marijuana according to the Fox 11 report, which said that the initial test was negative but the second test came back positive. Menominee Tribal Chairman Gary Besaw is now denying the allegations, saying that he and the tribe are “perplexed” by the raid and said they have informed the government every step of the way.
Besaw earlier stated that the crops had great economic potential for Menominee Tribe, which is currently at the bottom of the state of Wisconsin when it comes to poverty and health.
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I love how WBOC says the county is losing perdue? How about how the city is ANTI BUSINESS MAYOR ?
ReplyDeletewhat's 16 got to do with Feds Raid Native American Tribal Lands,
DeleteThey leave these hundreds of supposed hate camps exist??
ReplyDeleteWhy destroy industrial crops? Stupidity equal to our first two commenters?
ReplyDeleteMore time and resources wasted making people comply with an unconstitutional racist war on drugs. Doesn't America have better things to do?
ReplyDeleteIt is indeed 6:10.Anyone capable of basic math should be able to see the decline.
ReplyDeleteBack to the subject... I have to wonder after centuries of being kicked around by the US government the Indians are surprised when it happens again.
ReplyDeleteThe treaties that granted them "sovereignty", total and complete, over their lands was also just another lie.
ReplyDeleteWhite man: "you can have this worthless desert land that we can't find a use for, and forget all about the lush green mountains and foothills we stole from you. BUT, we WILL give you this land and sign a treaty that say you will have total and complete control, as a "country within a country". Forever and ever.
Indians: We should have killed you when we first saw you.
White people's definition of "sovereignty"? Do as we say or everyone goes to prison. A "Treaty"??? Seriously??? You BELIEVED that?!
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