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In this Sept. 24, 2015 photo, consultant Jonathan Hunt checks seedlings growing in the new marijuana growing facility on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation in Flandreau, S.D. The project, according to the tribe, could generate up to $2 million a month in profit. The first joints are expected to go on sale Dec. 31 at a New Years Eve party. (AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn)
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/b759278274a94be89e6e4f3793b8c009/south-dakota-tribe-open-nations-1st-marijuana-resort
FLANDREAU, S.D. (AP) The Santee Sioux tribe has already proven its business acumen, running a successful casino, a 120-room hotel and a 240-head buffalo ranch on the plains of South Dakota.
But those enterprises have not been immune to competition and the lingering effects of the Great Recession, so the small tribe of 400 is undertaking a new venture opening the nation's first marijuana resort on its reservation. The experiment could offer a new money-making model for tribes nationwide seeking economic opportunities beyond casinos.
Santee Sioux leaders plan to grow their own pot and sell it in a smoking lounge that includes a nightclub, arcade games, bar and food service, and eventually, slot machines and an outdoor music venue.
"We want it to be an adult playground," tribal President Anthony Reider said. "There's nowhere else in American that has something like this."
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South Dakota tribe to open nation's 1st marijuana resort (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Sep 2015
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niyad
(121,031 posts)1. this should prove very interesting.
larkrake
(1,674 posts)2. great idea!
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. Damn
That's the other side of the state.
Come on Pine Ridge, your only 30 mins away.