South Dakota Tribe to Open Nation's 1st Marijuana Resort

ABC News ^ | September 29, 2015 | Regina Garcia Cano, The Associated Press

[2ndDivisionVet]

FLANDREAU, S.D. — 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....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is the Associated Press admitting that the "Great Recession" is still going on?

[Cicero]

No, they are careful to say that it’s the “lingering effects” of the Great Recession, which was all Bush’s fault.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Everyone stays in their rooms with CNN on.

[shanover]

....because #Indianlivesmatter. It’s racist to say that they can’t smoke their pipes. This country is beyond the “looking glass”.

[nickcarraway]

“I had my spa appointment at 1:00, but I totally spaced and missed it.”

[Billthedrill]

Why would they want a bunch of gamblers around playing with impaired short-term memory? Why, those poor fellows would quickly lose every...

Ah.

Never mind.

[VanDeKoik]

So they are opening up a “High-yet” hotel and resort?

[ConservingFreedom]

ping

[Bringbackthedraft]

I don’t think they’ll earn enough to buy the country back.

[Responsibility2nd]

I want the munchies concessions.

Mars Bar and a Dr. Pepper? That'll be $12.50, sir.

kaching!

[red-dawg]

Smart.
Sell MJ to a bunch of gamblers, and have the munchie concession too.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Why do you think booze is free or low cost?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Can somebody explain why it is legal to have casino gambling on Indian reservations, but its illegal in many states for you or I to open a gambling business?????

Isn’t it discrimination to allow American Indians to do this, while whites, blacks, Asian, any other group you can think of, are banned from such businesses???

[blueunicorn6]

Oh, the smoke signals they’ll be sending.

[drfeelgood]

i think that’s why they lost to the white man as they were always high and visiting the spiritworld

[Cicero]

“Have another mushroom!”

[shadeaud]

and while they smoke their weed and the second hand smoke reaches the boundaries of the reservation, the average Joe six pack comes in contact with the smoke and he wants to sue the resort because back in New York he was sued by a neighbor who claimed she could smell his cigarette smoke from her apartment walls

[Autonomous User]

Me Smoke'm peace pipe with palefaces and take there shiney beads....

[FES0844]

Anything for a buck.

[rwfok]

Indian reservations are sovereign nations.