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605 Cannabis Principal Raised Social Security Disability in Court While Fighting Foreclosure on Emery Home
Asked about her role at 605 Cannabis, Melissa Mentele told a judge, “Your Honor, I own the company.” Moments later the certified transcript records her saying, “I’m no [sic] Social Security Disability.” Publisher Jason Karimi, the respondent, says she said “on.” She is also fighting a contract-for-deed foreclosure on her Emery home.
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605 Cannabis Principal Raised Social Security Disability in Court While Fighting Foreclosure on Emery Home
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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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South Dakota Had Two Medical Cannabis Testing Labs. Now It Has One. Nobody Has Explained Why.
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Congress Gave Delta-8 Another Month. It Didn’t Give It Schedule III.
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“We Don’t Think Anything Has Changed”: Full Transcript of the South Dakota AG’s Office on Federal Rescheduling
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Utah Says Its Psilocybin Clinics Are Safer Than A Church. Iowa Just Let A Church Prove It Could Be Safe Too.
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605 Cannabis LLC Products Pulled From Shelves At 9 Fed Up Dispensaries In South Dakota.
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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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WeedPress Requests Five Years of MMOC Communications with Outside Groups
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South Dakota Bishops Call Recreational Marijuana Use Intrinsically Evil. What Does Catholic Teaching Say About Legalization?
Courts & Records
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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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South Dakota Protects Free Speech With New Anti-SLAPP Law
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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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No. 18 — Federal Question Preservation in State Cannabis Prosecutions
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Leadership Matters: Strategy Failure — Not the Supreme Court — Doomed Legalization in South Dakota
Legislation & Rules
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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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How to File a Written Comment on South Dakota’s 38-Rule Medical Cannabis Package
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After Reading South Dakota’s 54-Page Cannabis Rule Draft, I Filed a Supplemental Comment on What Form 14 Doesn’t Explain
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An Emergency Rule Lasts Ninety Days. It Is Not a Winter Session.
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South Dakota Wants to Rewrite Its Corrective-Action Rule. The Fine Can Still Come With It.
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South Dakota Has Rewritten Article 44:90 Before. The 38-Amendment Package Is Large. It Is Not the First.
Federal Scheduling / CSA
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Congress Gave Delta-8 Another Month. It Didn’t Give It Schedule III.
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“We Don’t Think Anything Has Changed”: Full Transcript of the South Dakota AG’s Office on Federal Rescheduling
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Iowa Proposes State Schedule III Placement for Qualifying Medical Marijuana Products. South Dakota Still Has a Separate Scheduling Question.
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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 Says Federal Schedule III Has “Negligible Impact” on State Medical Program; MMOC Receives Patient and Advocacy Materials
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South Dakota Attorney General Publishes Opinion Concerning Impact Of Federal Rescheduling
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MMOC Agenda For October 13 2026 Meeting Includes Federal Rescheduling Discussion By AG Office
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I’m Going Back to Senator Thune’s Sioux Falls Office. This Time I’m Bringing the Schedule III Question.
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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
SD Cannabis Business
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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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A Patient Card Is Not a Shop License
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38 Rules, 19,821 Patients, 108 Licensed Establishments: South Dakota Rewrites Its Medical Cannabis Program
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Four Pot Shops Five Minutes Over the Iowa Line Sell the Flower Iowa Still Won’t License
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South Dakota Reports Fewer Cannabis Businesses—but Not Why Their Licenses Disappeared
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Why South Dakota’s Medical Cannabis Businesses Are Disappearing: The Pressures Behind a 24.5% License Decline
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SD Cannabis Business
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Iowa & Nebraska
Medical cannabis, hemp and religious-freedom law next door, and how it crosses into South Dakota.
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Religious Freedom
RFRA laws, free-exercise case law and religious-use claims involving cannabis.
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Policy Series
Long-form research on federal barriers for patients and veterans, rescheduling risk and cannabis banking.
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For the Record
A book by Jason Karimi. Ten chapters on how power actually works, written for future advocates.
