Governor Kristi Noem has vetoed five bills in the 2023 Legislative Session. One veto has already been sustained; the other four will be discussed by…
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While Kristi Noem was off filling her rodeo fans in Vegas full of bull, killer Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was back here at home admitting…
Industrial hemp is blossoming slowly in South Dakota. After a couple years of state-government foot-dragging, 20 South Dakota farmers are growing about 2,000 acres of…
Maybe South Dakota’s Next Big Thing is all that industrial hemp our farmers want to grow. Obstruct and delay as she might, Governor Kristi Noem…
Governor Kristi Noem and her minions insist South Dakota isn’t ready to legalize medical marijuana. Voters approved opening South Dakota for medical marijuana business come…
Amendment A is toast, for now. Sixth Circuit Judge Christina Klinger yesterday nullified South Dakotans’ vote to write recreational marijuana, industrial hemp, and the regulation…
The Legislature’s Rules Review Committee yesterday voted 5–1 to approve South Dakota’s new rules for industrial hemp, including lots of fees for growers and processors:…
South Dakotans are voting on whether to legalize medical and recreational marijuana (Initiated Measure 26 and Amendment A), but 2020 House Bill 1008, passed last…
Did you really think Governor Kristi Noem was going to embrace industrial hemp? Four months after the Legislature passed 2020 House Bill 1008, Noem’s bureaucratic…
Governor Kristi Noem is exercising a novel form of pocket veto on the budget and spending bills still on her desk. She signed the FY2021…