Posted on 02/23/2015 12:24:37 AM PST by Ken H
PENSACOLA — A small, Alabama-based Indian tribe that wants to expand its casinos into the Sunshine State might adopt a hardball negotiating stance: Let us offer gambling in a few Florida locations, or we could consider growing and selling marijuana on our property.
The prospect of selling pot is just one "what if" scenario that tribal leaders say is possible. But what the Poarch Creek Band of Indians want now is for Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature to take them seriously and approve a compact with the tribe that would allow a casino.
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Ah, so it is.
So I did!
“Give us what we want or we’ll dope up our own children and turn them into non-competitive vegetables...”
The rule of law is over.
If this is a federally recognized tribe, they are a sovreign with their own laws.
If they are sovereign with their own laws then I propose they not receive a single penny of federal funds for anything whatsoever.
So they are asking for the government to take over their land now?
Federally recognized Indian tribes are “ward” states that, by treaty and statute recieve federal funds, but they are owed a lot more for funds that have supposedly been kept in trust (but like all gov’t money, doesn’t really exist).
But if you want to play hardball with money that already belongs to them, they can always make good on their promise to grow and sell pot, or lots of other projects. Unregulated abortion clinics comes to mind (a tribe in South Dakota once threatened this).
The history of America’s treatment of the Native American is not one where the Indians have had an advantage and have gotten one over on the US. The opposite is true.
Do you want them to enforce the following federal drug laws as well?
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Is it Legal to Buy Prescription Drugs from Canada?
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As long as quantities stay low, custom officials usually do not enforce prescription drug laws.
http://thelawdictionary.org/article/is-it-legal-to-buy-prescription-drugs-from-canada/
I am assuming this is the same bunch that has the casino in Wetumpka, Alabama?
Why not do both?
Go big or go home!
Perhaps rather than growing dope, or opening casinos, they could create something that actually adds value to society
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