I can only speak to weed, but the tribal reservation that I was on would not allow weed production for a couple reasons, one is that they receive quite a lot of federal funds and assistance, importantly they let the DEA run drug enforcement/stings, and the tribe doesn't want to rock the boat unless there is a very clear and well supported upside.
Not everyone in the tribe would be supportive, i.e. it would be a political risk. You would probably generate some tax revenue, but especially in the early days (in Oregon), it wasn't clear how much you'd make, whether banks would support you, whether the DEA would get angry about "interstate" commerce, regardless of their actual jurisdiction etc.
So their answer was, at the time no, you cannot grow weed commercially even though there wasn't really anything stopping them at that point. However they, and many other tribes, operate casinos(against the law in their state) and sell fireworks, potentially against state law or city ordinance; the latter because the ATF doesn't care, and the former because it represents over 80% of the tax revenue of the tribe and there is a history already built there between regulators and the tribe.
Not everyone in the tribe would be supportive, i.e. it would be a political risk. You would probably generate some tax revenue, but especially in the early days (in Oregon), it wasn't clear how much you'd make, whether banks would support you, whether the DEA would get angry about "interstate" commerce, regardless of their actual jurisdiction etc.
So their answer was, at the time no, you cannot grow weed commercially even though there wasn't really anything stopping them at that point. However they, and many other tribes, operate casinos(against the law in their state) and sell fireworks, potentially against state law or city ordinance; the latter because the ATF doesn't care, and the former because it represents over 80% of the tax revenue of the tribe and there is a history already built there between regulators and the tribe.