In Kanesatake, a marijuana dispensary sprouts on Mohawk land

There’s no turning back now.
The thought looped its way around Clifton Ariwakehte Nicholas’s mind as he sorted through a pile of narcotics. It was, he thought, surreal to see the freezer bags sprawled out in his shop, each stuffed with fragrant, yellowish-green buds.
Nicholas opened the first-ever medical marijuana dispensary in the Kanesatake Mohawk territory on Friday.
The dispensary is, strictly speaking, illegal. It puts Nicholas at odds with the provincial police who patrol Kane