Re: Maritime Drug Law

Yeah, if your floating hash house was dispensing peyote (for religious purposes, of course) on the broad waters of the Missouri river rather than "may Jane", and registered to a denizen of the Cherokee Nation, your proposed scheme might be safe from federal raiders(whose juridiction is basically any navigable water).

However, for any other drug on the federal register of controlled substances, including marijuana, such an operation would without a doubt be quickly shut down and its operatives,

"sent down the river", so to speak, in federal custody. (And, no, a citizen of the United States who also happens to be an enrolled member of a recognized Indian nation is not likely

to qualify as a person of foreign registry for any purpose under American law, including the one you mentioned.)

Re: Maritime Drug Law

Yeah, if your floaing hash house was dispensing peyote (for religious purposes, of course,) on the broad waters of the Missouri river rather than "Mary Jane", and registered to a denizen of the Cherokee Nation, your proposed scheme might be safe from federal raiders(whose jurisdiction is basically any navigable water).

However, such an enterprise involving any other drug on the federal register of controlled substances would undoubtedly be quickly shut down and its operatives "sent down the river", so to speak, in federal custody. (And, no, a citizen of the United States who also happens to be an enrolled member of a recognized Indian nation is unlikely to qualify as a "person of foreign registry" for any purpose in American law, including the one you mentioned.)