LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Examiner) - The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska is moving ahead with legalizing marijuana, a move the tribe’s attorney general says Nebraska officials used to suspend negotiations on an unrelated state-Tribal tobacco tax compact.

The tribe called the move “direct retaliation.”

Omaha Tribe Attorney General John Cartier said an assistant attorney general for the state called him Monday, an hour before the first meeting of the tribe’s cannabis commission. Cartier learned state officials would no longer negotiate on a tobacco tax compact because of the tribe’s more permissive position on marijuana.

The Omaha Tribe Council unanimously voted in July to legalize medical cannabis and adult-use recreational marijuana . The initial focus of the tribe’s cannabis commission is

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