Working in Huron’s Federal Building Today — and a Reminder of What Rounds’ Staff Said Last Summer

I’m in Huron today working at the federal building, troubleshooting and repairing an IT failure for the offices here. While on site, conversations with staff turned to cannabis policy and federal rescheduling.

It brought back a discussion I had last summer while installing computers in Senator Mike Rounds’ offices in Pierre. During that work, staff members spoke openly about their strong support for federal rescheduling. They also mentioned that people connected to the senator’s office held significant investments in Trulieve, one of the largest multi-state cannabis operators in the country.

I’m not going to out the persons admitting to supporting rescheduling who work for Senator Rounds. That’s a betrayal of discretionary trust. But I am documenting it happened – with my sacred honor, and honest word, as proof.

So help me God…

The comments by Rounds staff were not framed as official policy statements. They were made in the course of ordinary conversation while I was on site performing technical work. Still, they stood out. It is not every day that staff tied to a U.S. senator’s office openly discuss both personal or associated financial interests in a major cannabis company and their support for moving marijuana out of Schedule I.

Today’s work in Huron was a reminder of how often these issues surface in unexpected places — including inside federal buildings across South Dakota.

The gap between public positioning and private conversations remains worth paying attention to.

Also discussed with security Sturgis and my upcoming Harley Ultra Glide (anniversary edition) charity ride August 9th I’m joining to network with natives fighting human trafficking and drug cartels on the reservations which has been causing gigantic problems for the tribes out here. We also discussed a tribe discussing religious ibogaine churches being established to help the meth and opiate crisis South Dakota is still reeling from.

I’ve seen two neighbors in the past five years in my apartment building die of drug overdoses and watched paramedics remove their bodies – one of whom had sat on my couch a week prior to passing while I told her to stop using these deadly narcotics. I watched from the North Shore Hawaii beach on the security cameras while paramedics tragically removed her.

That was a preventable situation, but lack of community support systems – and in my opinion Catholic boomers ignorant hatred – isolated this person, who passed over at the age of 50 years old.

Ibogaine may save neighbors and “folks disconnected from community and churches” aka “addicts” lives.

Spread the word. Let’s freaking ride.

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