A Reddit tip says the store will close September 27 while Pure Bliss Farms keeps growing. The closure is not yet confirmed—but the company’s original business plan raises a larger question about the economics of South Dakota’s medical-only cannabis market.
A tip circulating on Reddit says Pure Bliss Dispensary in Tea, South Dakota, will close September 27.
WeedPress has not independently confirmed the closing date with Pure Bliss, and readers should treat the September 27 date as unconfirmed until the company does so.
But the claim is specific. A September Reddit post in r/SouthDakotaTrees says the dispensary is in its final week, is discounting merchandise by as much as 40 percent, and will close September 27. The post makes an equally important distinction: Pure Bliss Farms and other Pure Bliss operations are expected to continue.¹
That distinction is supported by the public record.
Pure Bliss is not simply one dispensary. South Dakota regulatory and local-government records document both a retail operation in Tea and a separate cultivation operation associated with Pure Bliss Farms.² Records obtained by WeedPress also show that when the retail operation was being developed in 2022, its owners were thinking considerably bigger than a single medical-cannabis storefront.
The original business plan contemplated medical sales, eventual recreational sales and expansion into additional communities.³
Four years later, South Dakota still does not have a state-licensed recreational cannabis market.
And now the Tea dispensary is reportedly preparing to close.
That does not establish why Pure Bliss may be closing the store. It does, however, make the company’s history worth examining.
The original plan was bigger than one medical dispensary
In January 2022, Pure Bliss Cannabis LLC submitted a business plan to the City of Tea as part of its effort to establish a cannabis dispensary.
The document is unusually useful because it does something ordinary corporate searches often do not: it states the proposed ownership percentages.
According to the plan, Pure Bliss Cannabis LLC was to be owned by three partners: Kasey Hahn, 40 percent; Dylan Stokes, 30 percent; and Korey Kyle, 30 percent.³
The plan identified Sarah Hahn as operations manager and Korey Kyle as storefront manager. It projected a roughly 3,500-square-foot dispensary, seven-day-a-week operations and six to eight additional full-time employees.³
Tea was not supposed to be the end of the story.
The business plan contemplated possible additional locations in Rapid City, Sioux City, Mitchell, Brookings, Watertown and smaller communities.³
It also contemplated something South Dakota ultimately did not provide: a recreational cannabis market.
That part of the history matters.
South Dakota voters approved both medical marijuana and Amendment A, the adult-use constitutional amendment, in November 2020. The South Dakota Supreme Court subsequently invalidated Amendment A.⁴ Voters then rejected Initiated Measure 27, another adult-use proposal, in 2022.⁵ A third adult-use proposal, Initiated Measure 29, was rejected in 2024.⁶
Medical cannabis survived.
Recreational legalization did not.
Pure Bliss therefore entered a substantially different commercial environment from the broader medical-and-recreational future contemplated in its early planning documents.
That does not mean the absence of recreational legalization caused the reported closure. WeedPress has not obtained evidence establishing the reason for the decision.
But it is a legitimate economic question to ask.
Pure Bliss is still selling today
There is another reason not to get ahead of the evidence.
Pure Bliss Dispensary still has an active retail presence online.
Its current Weedmaps listing identifies the Tea store as a medical-only dispensary and displays a live menu across flower, concentrates, edibles, vape products, drinks and other categories. The listing says its menu is updated in real time.⁷
The South Dakota Department of Health also inspected the Tea dispensary as recently as April 17, 2026.²
In other words, this is not a story about discovering a dispensary that quietly disappeared months ago.
If the Reddit report is accurate, it concerns an operating store winding down now.
WeedPress has not independently verified the Reddit claim that merchandise is being discounted by as much as 40 percent.
The September 27 closing date remains unconfirmed.
The farm is a different part of the story
The cultivation operation appears to be another matter entirely.
South Dakota Department of Health records separately identify Pure Bliss as operating a cultivation facility in Tea. The Department has published inspection records for that operation, including a cultivation inspection from January 2026.²
Local records provide additional evidence that Pure Bliss Farms was recently preparing to continue operating rather than shut down.
Lincoln County records from 2025 document approval of a 2025–2027 cultivation medical-cannabis renewal associated with Korey Hahn and Pure Bliss Farms.⁸
In February 2026, county commissioners also approved a local-government compliance certification for Pure Bliss Farms at 46562 270th Street near Tea.⁹
That is consistent with the Reddit tip’s claim that the farm will continue even if the dispensary closes.
It is also important not to collapse the different Pure Bliss names into a single legal entity.
The 2022 Tea retail documents concern Pure Bliss Cannabis LLC.
The cultivation operation appears in later records as Pure Bliss Farms LLC or Pure Bliss Farms.
The public record located so far does not establish that their ownership structures are identical today.
Who owned the original dispensary?
The 2022 municipal filing answers the original ownership question better than most online business directories.
Pure Bliss Cannabis LLC’s plan expressly states that Kasey Hahn owned 40 percent, Dylan Stokes owned 30 percent and Korey Kyle owned 30 percent.³
Korey Kyle’s connection did not disappear immediately after the initial proposal. City of Tea records from 2023 continued to associate Kyle with Pure Bliss Cannabis licensing.¹⁰
But later cultivation records introduce another name: Korey Hahn.
Lincoln County’s 2025 proceeding concerning Pure Bliss Farms describes the cultivation renewal as being for “Korey Hahn (Pure Bliss Farms).”⁸
Those records should not be blended together.
Kasey Hahn, Korey Kyle and Korey Hahn are names appearing in different documents. WeedPress has not established that any similarly named individuals are the same person or determined any family relationships among them.
Nor has WeedPress yet obtained sufficient corporate records to determine whether the original 40-30-30 ownership of Pure Bliss Cannabis remained intact through 2026.
That is part of the story still being reported.
Pure Bliss Farms has a wholesale market beyond its own store
Closing a dispensary would not necessarily mean Pure Bliss products disappear.
Pure Bliss Farms flower remains listed through other South Dakota retailers. Weedmaps currently identifies Pure Bliss Farms as a South Dakota cannabis company and shows its products available through other dispensaries.¹¹
There is also a particularly relevant piece of evidence in the Reddit thread itself. An account representing Bad River Cannabis in Fort Pierre said Bad River would continue carrying Pure Bliss products after the reported Tea closure.¹
That statement fits the larger public record. Bad River is an established South Dakota medical-cannabis operator with both dispensary and cultivation operations, and Robert Krogstad has publicly represented Bad River before state policymakers.
So Pure Bliss potentially has a route to patients even without operating its own Tea storefront.
That suggests a possible business model in which cultivation and wholesale continue while other licensed dispensaries bear the costs of retail operations.
That is an inference from the available evidence—not an explanation Pure Bliss has given WeedPress.
Whether Pure Bliss is deliberately moving toward cultivation and wholesale, whether the Tea storefront simply underperformed, or whether some other issue drove the reported closure remains unknown.
The market around Sioux Falls is competitive
Pure Bliss also operates in a market where medical patients have alternatives.
Current Weedmaps results for the Sioux Falls area show Pure Bliss alongside East River Farms, The Dispensary, Genesis Farms, Roy’zzz and other nearby cannabis retailers.¹²
There are anecdotal signs of price competition as well.
In an April 2026 Sioux Falls Reddit discussion asking patients which dispensaries they preferred, commenters compared Pure Bliss with competing retailers. Some characterized Pure Bliss as expensive, while others praised its products or discussed buying Pure Bliss flower through competing dispensaries.¹³
Those comments are anecdotes, not market research.
But they reinforce the questions raised by a medical-only market: How many storefronts can the existing patient population support? How much retail competition can that population sustain? And is cultivation and wholesale more attractive for some operators than maintaining another storefront?
Those are questions. They are not yet explanations for Pure Bliss.
Pure Bliss Farms was active in the adult-use campaign
Pure Bliss was not merely waiting on the sidelines while South Dakota debated recreational legalization.
The 2024 campaign-finance record for Grow South Dakota identifies Pure Bliss Farms as an entity contributor and reports a $5,000 contribution during the campaign surrounding the adult-use ballot effort.¹⁴
That puts Pure Bliss Farms directly into the documented history of South Dakota’s most recent legalization campaign.
Initiated Measure 29 ultimately failed.
That makes the company’s original business plan particularly interesting in hindsight.
In 2022, Pure Bliss was planning for a market that could include recreational cannabis and multiple retail locations.
By 2024, Pure Bliss Farms was financially participating in a campaign seeking adult-use legalization.
By 2026, South Dakota remains a medical-only state—and Pure Bliss’s Tea retail outlet is reportedly preparing to close while the cultivation side remains alive.
Again, correlation is not causation.
There are countless reasons a retail location can close: rent, staffing, margins, competition, location, ownership decisions, wholesale opportunities, changing strategy or ordinary business performance.
Without an explanation from Pure Bliss, attributing the closure to South Dakota’s failure to legalize recreational cannabis would be speculation.
But ignoring the economic context would be equally unhelpful.
South Dakota built a cannabis industry around a limited customer base
With support from groups outside of the state, South Dakota legalized medical cannabis through Initiated Measure 26, not general adult-use sales.
That distinction defines the legal customer base available to state-licensed dispensaries.
A dispensary cannot simply sell cannabis to every adult who walks through the door. Its legal market is tied to qualified medical patients and the regulatory structure created around them.
Pure Bliss’s current Weedmaps listing accordingly describes the Tea store as “Medical patients only.”⁷
That matters when considering the assumptions businesses may have made during the early years of South Dakota legalization.
An operator entering the market after the 2020 election could see two possible futures: the medical program voters had approved and an adult-use market voters had also approved but which remained tied up in litigation.
Only one survived.
The South Dakota Supreme Court struck Amendment A down in 2021.⁴
Voters rejected another legalization proposal in 2022.⁵
Voters rejected IM 29 in 2024.⁶
The recreational market anticipated in Pure Bliss’s original business plan never materialized.
The medical market did.
Now one of the businesses that planned around that earlier environment is reportedly shrinking its retail footprint while maintaining production.
That is worth watching.
There is no evidence this is a regulatory shutdown
Nothing WeedPress located indicates that the Department of Health ordered Pure Bliss Dispensary to close.
There is no evidence presently before WeedPress of a license revocation, enforcement shutdown or bankruptcy causing the reported September 27 closure.
There is also no evidence tying the reported decision to the Department’s pending 2026 amendments to Article 44:90.
That last distinction is especially important right now.
South Dakota is in the middle of a significant medical-cannabis rulemaking. The timing could invite assumptions that the two events are connected.
WeedPress has found no evidence establishing such a connection.
The available record instead shows a dispensary that remained sufficiently active to undergo state inspection this year, paired with a cultivation operation that recently went through local renewal and compliance processes.
One address discrepancy is worth preserving
The public documents contain a small discrepancy WeedPress is not going to silently resolve.
The 2024 Grow South Dakota campaign-finance report lists Pure Bliss Farms using 46560 270th Street.¹⁴
The 2026 Lincoln County compliance record identifies Pure Bliss Farms at 46562 270th Street.⁹
That could reflect adjacent buildings, different mailing and licensed-premises addresses, a parcel configuration, or nothing more than a clerical error.
For now, they are simply two different addresses appearing in two different public records.
The question Pure Bliss can answer
The most important fact remains the one public records cannot tell us.
Why close the dispensary?
If Pure Bliss confirms the September 27 date, the answer matters beyond one Tea storefront.
Was the retail operation profitable? Did the company decide cultivation and wholesale offered better economics? Did the limited size of South Dakota’s medical market factor into the decision? Did retail competition around Sioux Falls matter? Did the company originally invest expecting recreational legalization eventually to expand its customer base? What happens to the employees? Will Pure Bliss Farms continue cultivation at the same scale? Will Pure Bliss products continue reaching patients through other South Dakota dispensaries?
Those answers would tell us whether this is simply one company’s restructuring or an example of something larger happening inside South Dakota’s medical-cannabis economy.
For now, the evidence supports a narrower conclusion.
A Reddit tip says Pure Bliss Dispensary in Tea will close September 27. WeedPress has not independently confirmed that date. Public records do, however, show that Pure Bliss entered the market with plans extending beyond one medical storefront, including anticipated recreational sales and possible expansion into additional communities. Pure Bliss Farms’ cultivation operation appears positioned to continue.
South Dakota gave cannabis businesses a medical market.
Three different paths toward a recreational market have failed to produce one.
If Pure Bliss really is closing its retail store while keeping the farm alive, the next question isn’t merely whether the Reddit post was right.
It’s why the storefront no longer makes sense.
And in South Dakota’s medical-only cannabis economy, that answer could be more interesting than the closure itself.
Footnotes
¹ Pure Bliss Dispensary Closing 9/27, Reddit, r/SouthDakotaTrees (Sept. 2026), https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthDakotaTrees/comments/1wlwgqh/pure_bliss_dispensary_closing_927/.
² S.D. Dep’t of Health, Medical Cannabis Program, Dispensary Inspection Reports, https://doh.sd.gov/programs/medical-cannabis/med-cannabis-establishments/inspection-reports/dispensary-reports/; S.D. Dep’t of Health, Medical Cannabis Program, Cultivation Inspection Reports, https://doh.sd.gov/programs/medical-cannabis/med-cannabis-establishments/inspection-reports/cultivation-reports/.
³ Pure Bliss Cannabis LLC, Business Plan, Conditional Use Permit 22-02, City of Tea, South Dakota (Jan. 2022), https://www.teasd.com/media/files1/agendas/2022%20AGENDA/JAN%2017%202022%20MEETING/Conditional%20Use%20Permit%2022-02%20-%20Cannabis%20Dispensary_2015%20Merchant%20Street.pdf.
⁴ Thom v. Barnett, 2021 S.D. 65, 967 N.W.2d 261.
⁵ S.D. Sec’y of State, 2022 General Election Official State Canvass Results, https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/election-resources/election-history/2022/2022-general-election.aspx.
⁶ S.D. Sec’y of State, 2024 General Election Official Results, https://sdsos.gov/elections-voting/election-resources/election-history/2024/2024-general-election.aspx.
⁷ Pure Bliss Dispensary, Weedmaps, https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/pure-bliss-dispensary.
⁸ Lincoln Cnty. Comm’n, proceedings concerning 2025–2027 cultivation medical-cannabis renewal for Korey Hahn (Pure Bliss Farms) (2025), reproduced in Legal and Public Notices, Dakota Scout (Oct. 2025), https://www.thedakotascout.com/p/legals-and-public-notices-october-af5.
⁹ Lincoln Cnty. Comm’n, proceedings concerning local-government compliance certification for Pure Bliss Farms, 46562 270th St., Tea, S.D. (2026), reproduced in Legal and Public Notices, Dakota Scout (Feb. 2026), https://www.thedakotascout.com/p/legals-and-public-notices-february-df2.
¹⁰ City of Tea, Pure Bliss Cannabis License—Korey Kyle (2023), https://www.teasd.com/media/files1/agendas/2023%20agenda%20info/July%2024%202023%20agenda/Pure%20Bliss%20Cannabis%20License%20-%20Korey%20Kyle.pdf.
¹¹ Pure Bliss Farms, Weedmaps, https://weedmaps.com/brands/pure-bliss-farms.
¹² Weed Dispensaries in Sioux Falls, SD, Weedmaps, https://weedmaps.com/dispensaries/in/united-states/south-dakota/sioux-falls.
¹³ Which Is Your Dispensary of Choice?, Reddit, r/SiouxFalls (Apr. 20, 2026), https://www.reddit.com/r/SiouxFalls/comments/1sr5xgh/which_is_your_dispensary_of_choice/.
¹⁴ Grow South Dakota Ballot Committee, Campaign Finance Termination Report, S.D. Sec’y of State (May 20, 2024), https://sdcfr.sdsos.gov/Document.aspx?DocumentID=84702&type=doc.
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