Alex White Plume of the Oglala Lakota Nation planted his grow/op on May 30 and on August 1st he tested the THC level to be sure his crop conforms to tribal code. He said the original law was 1% but the "lawyers got a hold of it and rather than act sovereign they went .3%." His clones are bred to be high in cannabidiol (CBD). In a Faceberg post White Plume told journalist, Tim Giago that growers are governed by heavy-handed policy from the federal government and the tribal councils so there is little free will to deviate from the rules.
CBD products being sold in South Dakota and other states are little different from raw milk, preserves, pies or juices that are often tainted with hormones, pesticides and worse but sold at farmers markets anyway. Giving the products as gifts is one thing but selling untested product especially through interstate commerce is completely different. Contaminated dietary supplements, vapes, ointments and edibles are unacceptable in a country with a long history of snake oil salesmen.
Even in Canada using home grown seed is illegal and why anyone would want to buy genetically engineered seed from Bayer Crop Science/Monsanto or some other earth hater every year remains a mystery. This crop is not the benign introduced species it’s cracked up to be and stray pollen from the hemp industry can wreak havoc on growers of therapeutic and “recreational” cannabis.
In May the Red Lake Nation in occupied Minnesota voted to legalize therapeutic cannabis expanding the list of qualifying symptoms for tribal patients seeking treatment in the first application of cannabis flower in the state. On August 18, the White Earth tribe will vote to legalize for some patients and according to activist, Winona LaDuke hopes are high that voters will embrace the Oklahoma model, home to the loosest therapeutic cannabis rules in America.
But in my home state of South Dakota the law enforcement industry is worried cannabis reform will lead to less revenue for police departments. Policing for Profit has allowed the Division of Criminal Investigation to provide military armaments for the industry throughout South Dakota where most believe prostitution will be legal before cannabis laws are amended.
Think pesticide drift is destructive? Hemp is open range on meth. Medicine and a potential revenue source are being put at risk by an experiment that makes Jerusalem artichokes and Belgian endive look like safe investments. Legalization, state inspections and regulation of a product that so many people enjoy is reasonable public policy that would align with our life safety goals.
Cannabis is a safe, effective palliative so black market cannabis not tested or subject to regulation makes America and South Dakota less safe. But in a series of rants at the Dakota War Toilet LGBTQ activist, Miranda Gohn pleaded with readers to defy ballot measures legalizing cannabis for all adults while arguing her gender reassignment surgeries were essential to curing her dysphoria and clinical depression.
White Plume has a business relationship and grow contract with Evo Hemp.
"The email made it clear Lujan Grisham thinks legalization is a good idea." https://t.co/z08fDaWMby via @thenewmexican
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) August 12, 2020
2 comments:
Alex White Plume is a pioneer when it comes to hemp. He should be commended by the Governor and state Legislature for bring economic development to Pine Ridge. Instead the Feds and State should be ashamed of themselves for trying to stop anyone that wants to improve their health and livelihoods.
He hasn't posted on FB since September 9; I think his crop froze.
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