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LA TIMES
"The Pinoleville marijuana farm could be the first large-scale medical pot cultivation and distribution enterprise on tribal land in California, if not the country.
The tribe would devote 2.5 acres of its 99-acre rancheria to the venture, which would include 90,000 square feet of greenhouse for thousands of plants, far in excess of Mendocino County's legal limit of 25 plants per lot.
"The tribe," said FoxBarry Chief Executive Barry Brautman, "is exercising its sovereign right."
Brautman, who is working on cannabis plans with six tribes both in and out of California, told me the $10-million venture will conform to the state's medical marijuana laws and regulations. It will operate as a nonprofit and provide product only to medical dispensaries. No sales will take place on the tribe's land.
