The Joint Blog

MARCH 14, 2020

The Oglala Sioux Tribe (located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota) passed a referendum to legalize medical and recreational marijuana according to preliminary results from the tribe’s election commission. The Tribal Council will take up the issue on March 31.

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Leafly

MARCH 9, 2020

Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe will vote this week on legalizing medical and recreational cannabis on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation in an initiative that many hope will bring economic development to one of the most impoverished areas in the country.

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Leafly

MARCH 11, 2020

Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed a referendum to legalize medical and recreational marijuana on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, according to preliminary results from the tribe’s election commission. A proposal to allow alcohol in the tribe’s casino failed.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 9, 2021

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe are gearing up to open South Dakota’s first and only medical cannabis dispensary on July 1st, the day that medical pot officially becomes legal in the state. . Anyone wishing to enroll in the program can download an application from the tribe’s website.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 12, 2020

Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed a referendum to legalize medical and recreational marijuana on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, according to preliminary results from the tribe’s election commission. A proposal to allow alcohol in the tribe’s casino failed.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Native American nations in New York state are eyeing the legal cannabis business, with some reservations already operating dispensaries. Yet there are those with a sounder claim to legality, although generally in some of the more remote corners of the state—New York’s Native American nations. The first licenses are still months away.

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SpeedWeed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The city council in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on Tuesday night approved a proposal that will set a cap on the number of dispensaries, while also setting the cost of a license at $50,000. South Dakota voters approved a ballot initiative last year legalizing medical marijuana in the state.

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