Tribal Leaders Warn Biden’s Menthol Ban Will Only Further Empower Cartels

The Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana has been hard hit by an underlying drug presence that leaders say the tribe “can’t even touch.”

Marvin Weatherwax, the chairman of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) and a member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, told National Review that one of his nieces was asked by cartel members if they could stay at her house in exchange for drugs and money. She agreed and turned the house over to the cartel, which turned the home into a meth lab, he said. The home is one of more than 100 houses on the reservation that are unlivable because they need to be cleaned up, he said.

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The Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana has been hard hit by an underlying drug presence that leaders say the tribe “can’t even touch.”

Marvin Weatherwax, the chairman of the Coalition of Large Tribes (COLT) and a member of the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council in the Blackfeet Nation in Montana, told National Review that one of his nieces was asked by cartel members if they could stay at her house in exchange for drugs and money. She agreed and turned the house over to the cartel, which turned the home into a meth lab, he said. The home is one of more than 100 houses on the reservation that are unlivable because they need to be cleaned up, he said.