Decision in case of Chris Googoo means treaty rights challenge in provincial court will not be heard
A constitutional challenge by a councillor for a Nova Scotia First Nation who has claimed a treaty right to sell cannabis will not go ahead this summer after a judge ruled there was not enough evidence to show he was operating a dispensary raided by police in 2020.
Judge Jill Hartlen acquitted Chris Googoo this week in provincial court in Dartmouth, N.S., on counts of possession of cannabis for the purpose of distributing and selling it.
Googoo has been public in recent years that he runs two dispensaries, named High Grade, even noting it on his campaign website when he successfully ran for re-election to council this year for Millbrook First Nation.
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