Qualla, NC: The tribal council for North Carolina’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will let residents decide whether to allow adult-use marijuana sales on its land. Residents will decide on the measure on September 7th.
If approved, the measure would permit residents to legally possess cannabis and engage in retail sales. Cannabis sales would initially be restricted to tribal residents but would eventually be open to the general public.
Members of the tribe already engage in medical cannabis sales.
The federally recognized tribe has about 14,000 members. Approximately 9,600 of them live on Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, located about 50 miles west of Asheville.
Neither the medical use of cannabis nor the consumption of marijuana by adults is legal in North Carolina.