There’s a tour of the pot facility in Flandreau today, and Dana Ferguson at the Argus noted who showed up from the Legislature to take the tour.
4 of them.
Wollman and Parsley from District 8, which includes Flandreau, are there. Elizabeth May came from across the state, and Spencer Hawley from Brookings took the 20 minute drive to tour the facility.
Obviously, the District 8 reps will be facing constituent questions on it. Hawley will as well, given the pot growers have announced their intention to bus people from surrounding communities such as Brookings.
But all in all, it’s probably a good indicator that they aren’t going to find a lot of friends in the South Dakota Legislature, as they use lax federal law enforcement of drug laws to try to circumvent South Dakota State Laws.
(Update – Dana notes via Twitter that Paula Hawks is there, but didn’t sign in.)
“May says she knows upon return to Pierre lawmakers will be expected to pose solutions to county funding. Calls tribal marijuana great opp” Tweeted by Dana @ Argus
Does May mean the revenue for the state and counties from arrests & fines of non-tribal members that partake in this illegal activity? If so, that would be great!
Smokem’ if you’ve got em’. Liz may can use the weed money to fight common core!!!! I smell a special session!!!!!
What a scummy way to make money. I for one won’t darken the door of their “resort”, and I won’t go to their casino ever again either. I don’t’ support such idiocy.
The tribe is going to lose potential allies on other issues over this.
Yeah, they should be worried about that. After all, so many people are lined up in support of so may of the things they do on the reservation.
They always have the Feds if South Dakota wants to get in the way of their progress.
Time will tell. They make their bed and they will sleep in it.
On walking downstairs, May asks other legislators, “how are we going to sell this, boys?” Tweet from Dana & Argus
Sell this?
awesome…special session!!!!
Read the twitter feed. I had heard the tribe plans to shuttle students from SDSU to their pot resort. The tweet gives me a great deal of concern: “There will be shuttles from Sioux Falls, Brookings and lockers to store weed/paraphernalia, Monarch reps, say”
Meh. I’m thinking there’ll be an initial spike in interest in pot shuttles, but that will quickly wane as most potheads are simply too lazy to fart around with buses to Flandreau. It’s quicker, easier, and cheaper just to smoke up in the dorm parking lot.
One day marijuana will be legal in South Dakota and all the other states. When that happens, once again it will be proven that South Dakota is ten or twenty or thirty years behind the curve.
And will will know once more that the Flandreau Sioux Tribe was more advanced than the South Dakota government. I remember once hearing a Flandreau tribal president testify to the Senate State Affairs Committee when Barnett was the AG.
The tribal president said they had been to court twelve times against Barnett and had won every single time. He said, “If my attorney did that poorly, I would fire him.”
Hmmm! The FSST is probably taking out a large loan out or investing a great deal of their cash into this new facility. Could a scenario play out that state and county law enforcement legally deal with non-tribal members as a source of revenue from fines/legal costs and basically starve this venture out since it is still in violation of federal and state law? There can’t be that many tribal members that could support this alone are there?
Why is it so important for May to take a day off work to drive across the state to visit a Pot House? Isn’t she the legislator that opened her mouth about Indian kids committing suicide because of Common Core? Well, let’s just get all the Indian kids stoned. That should take care of everything!
believe it or not there are potheads like Krazy Larry advocating legalizing here in SD that think the way to solve the suicides is therapeutic Cannabis. Hey kids felling depressed and hopeless? just smoke this and all your problems will go away.
I don’t know which is sadder – that we have an Indian Tribe planning to intoxicate our citizens, or that we have a law maker that asks her fellow law makers, “how we gonna sell this boys?”
“I’m all about Marijuana” May
Unbelievable!
Victimless Crime? Yeah right!
FSST is not trying to circumvent law. It’s called tribal sovereignty.
Will “I’m all about Marijuana May now be working with convicted felon Bob Newland?