A potential showdown between law enforcement and a Native American tribe is brewing in North Carolina, where a district attorney has vowed “to enforce state law” once the state’s first cannabis dispensary opens later this month.
The grand opening of the Great Smoky Cannabis Co., operated by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (ECBI) on their 57,000-acre Qualla Boundary west of Asheville, is scheduled for April 20.
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It will be the first and only dispensary in North Carolina, where neither medical nor adult-use cannabis is legal.
Once sales begin, state law will continue to be enforced outside of tribal boundaries, District Attorney Ashley Hornsby Welch said in an April 3 statement, according to the Asheville Citizen Times.
“We do not pick certain laws
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