“We want to have dispensaries here on the Qualla Boundary and to be able to sell, but we have to start with this phase first,” he said. “ The people want cannabis, the world is changing, society is changing,” Jeremy Wilson, the EBCI’s government affairs liaison, said in an earlier interview. We have to have this in place first,' Sneed said. 'This is really just the first step, or kind of the cornerstone of moving toward medicinal. “This really is a quality of life issue as well for folks who have debilitating diseases, chronic pain, chronic back pain, cancer.” “There’s so much science now supporting cannabis as a medicine,” Sneed told the tribal council before the vote.
The Qualla Boundary includes about 100 square miles in the mountains of western North Carolina.The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians voted to legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana on tribal land, called the Qualla Boundary.
