As a young man, Todd Thompson was arrested during the heyday of the treaty rights fight at Mille Lacs, a legal battle that ultimately culminated with a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the rights of Ojibwe people to hunt, fish and gather in territory that the Ojibwe ceded to the U.S. government in a treaty in 1837. Now he’s fighting for his freedom to sell cannabis. (Photo by Mike Mosedale/Minnesota Reformer)

MAHNOMEN ( Minnesota Reformer ) — The day after Minnesota officially legalized recreational marijuana in August 2023, agents with the Paul Bunyan Drug Task Force raided a squat, single story cinderblock building across the railroad tracks from a grain elevator in the sleepy northwestern Minnesota town of Mahnomen.

The search of the Asema Tobacco & Pipe Shop yielded appro

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