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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 South Dakota: Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe steps closer to legalizing marijuana 🌿South Dakota: Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe steps closer to legalizing marijuana
FLANDREAU - The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has been looking into legalizing marijuana on the reservation since 2014.
Tribal executive committee members moved a step closer to making that a reality.
In a meeting Friday, the tribe set up an LLC with the purpose of pursuing recreational marijuana and hemp on the tribe’s reservation.
One of the tribe’s attorneys said this does not mean marijuana is now legal on the reservation.
The Moody County Sheriff has been following the tribe’s decision.
Deputy Troy Wellman says he is afraid legalizing pot will increase trafficking on and off the reservation. He’s also worried it will increase danger on the roads.
"I feel there is going to be a significant increase in the driving while drugged arrests that go on, which will also increase in fatalities, traffic accidents, that kind of thing," Weilman said.
The tribe is in the process of preparing an...
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