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What’s at Stake for Cannabis in South Dakota’s Nov. 3 Races
No cannabis question is on South Dakota’s Nov. 3 ballot, but the legislators elected that day will handle any change to the medical cannabis law, so this explainer reviews close races and candidates’ recorded votes on recent cannabis bills.
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Schedule III Changed the Federal Rules. Here Are 26 Questions South Dakota Still Has to Answer.
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South Dakota’s Revised Medical Cannabis Rules Take Effect Nov. 5
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DEA’s New Transfer Warning Collides With South Dakota’s Caregiver and Patient-Transfer Laws
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605 Cannabis and the Pyatts: What Public Records Show About an Oklahoma Cannabis Company That Listed a Worthing Grow as Its South Dakota Office
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605 Cannabis Principal Raised Social Security Disability in Court While Fighting Foreclosure on Emery Home
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Zach Lahn Ran Against Corporate Ag. Then He Picked a Bayer-Backed Hog Operator Whose Farm a Judge Just Put in Receivership
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Iowa Court of Appeals: A Medical Cannabidiol Card Does Not Automatically Defeat a Drug-Dog Alert
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Rob Cool Raided Again, Denied Bail
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WeedPress Doctrine: Public Records Oversight Protocol
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The Litigation Front of Cannabis Reform: Why Ryan Kolbeck’s Courtroom Work Matters Beyond South Dakota
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South Dakota Protects Free Speech With New Anti-SLAPP Law
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What’s at Stake for Cannabis in South Dakota’s Nov. 3 Races
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From Industry Blocks to Risk-Focused Lineups: What the Record Shows About South Dakota’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee
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Who Picked the Anti-Marijuana Speakers? South Dakota Legislature Says State Law Lets It Keep That Secret
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South Dakota’s Revised Medical Cannabis Rules Take Effect Nov. 5; Department’s Latest Posted Version Omits Two Proposed Corrective-Action Penalty Sentences
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WeedPress Requests Five Years of MMOC Communications with Outside Groups
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South Dakota’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee Meets October 13.
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LRC Says South Dakota Health’s New Homegrow Restriction May Lack Statutory Authority
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Part 1301 Defers Security to State Law. Article 44:90 Never Mentions Part 1301.
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What’s at Stake for Cannabis in South Dakota’s Nov. 3 Races
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I Carry a South Dakota Medical Cannabis Card. Patients Deserve Advocates Who Can Survive Scrutiny.
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WeedPress Requests Five Years of MMOC Communications with Outside Groups
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MMOC Agenda For October 13 2026 Meeting Includes Federal Rescheduling Discussion By AG Office
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Can You Lose Child Custody for Medical Marijuana in South Dakota? What the Law Actually Says
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My Written Comments to South Dakota Health: Put the Numbers in the Rulemaking Record
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Iowa Court of Appeals: A Medical Cannabidiol Card Does Not Automatically Defeat a Drug-Dog Alert
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Understanding High-Conflict Personalities: When You Become the Target of Blame
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Not for Sale: Hot Springs Votes to Ban Cannabis License Sales, Require City OK for Control Changes
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DEA’s List Shows 43 South Dakota Dispensary Entries; the State Licenses 62. What That Gap Can and Can’t Mean Before Nov. 29
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605 Cannabis and the Pyatts: What Public Records Show About an Oklahoma Cannabis Company That Listed a Worthing Grow as Its South Dakota Office
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605 Cannabis Principal Raised Social Security Disability in Court While Fighting Foreclosure on Emery Home
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New Approach South Dakota Leadership Faces Down $800,000 Unpaid Rent Allegation, Foreclosure, and Domestic Assault Case
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South Dakota Already Requires Testing Labs to Register With DEA. The New Subsection (k) Does Not Name a Testing Class.
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Pure Bliss Planned for Medical, Recreational and Expansion. Now Its Tea Dispensary Is Reportedly Closing.
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The April Rescheduling Order Asks for a License. Pierre Issues Four Certificates.
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South Dakota’s Attorney General Answered the Schedule III Question. The Department of Health Still Has Its Own Statute to Answer.
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South Dakota Attorney General Publishes Opinion Concerning Impact Of Federal Rescheduling
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Authorized Partnerships: Lay Participation in Administrative Process and the South Dakota Cannabis File
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LRC Says South Dakota Health’s New Homegrow Restriction May Lack Statutory Authority
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Can You Lose Child Custody for Medical Marijuana in South Dakota? What the Law Actually Says
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How to File a Written Comment on South Dakota’s 38-Rule Medical Cannabis Package
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South Dakota’s Commissioner Could Add, Delete, or Reschedule Drugs in 1970. A 1976 Criminal-Code Revision Replaced That Power With a Recommendation to the Legislature.
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An Emergency Rule Lasts Ninety Days. It Is Not a Winter Session.
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Congress Gave Delta-8 Another Month. It Didn’t Give It Schedule III.
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Schedule III Changed the Federal Rules. Here Are 26 Questions South Dakota Still Has to Answer.
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DEA’s New Transfer Warning Collides With South Dakota’s Caregiver and Patient-Transfer Laws
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South Dakotan Safety-Sensitive Jobs Sit on Two Desks. Schedule III Moved Neither One.
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When the State Certificate Is Suspended, the Federal Registration Is Suspended Too.
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Part 1301 Defers Security to State Law. Article 44:90 Never Mentions Part 1301.
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What Does “Accepted Medical Use” Actually Mean? A 40-Year Legal Fight Now Matters in South Dakota
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A Written Certification Is Not a Part 1306 Prescription
Independent oversight of South Dakota’s medical cannabis program: public records, the law, and the Legislature’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee.
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