Consultants from the industry have traveled to that part of South Dakota to advise tribal communities on cultivation and marketing including Indigenous firebrand, Dineh Benally, who with help from a Chinese syndicate had been growing cannabis on the Navajo Nation. Despite being banned from conducting business on the Pine Ridge Benally gave a February 6 presentation to tribal members on behalf of the Palliation Collaborative.
Since then, Republican South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has softened her stand on simple possession giving tribes further incentives to build the industry even as legal cannabis sputters elsewhere in the state.
A 1986 amendment to federal law allows tribes to acquire off-reservation land to serve the needs of its people so the Oglala Lakota Oyate bought property on I-90 just outside Badlands National Park. The Isanti Dakota Oyate or Flandreau Santee Sioux Nation has also taken steps to resume their cannabis initiative.
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