singular_me
5th October 2015, 12:33 PM
alcohol and pot.... getting super baked and lose one' shirt even faster?
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America’s First Marijuana Resort Is About to Open—Thanks to This South Dakota Tribe
5th October 2015
South Dakota’s Santee Sioux tribe is moving full speed ahead with plans to open the country’s first marijuana resort, complete with a smoking lounge that will include a nightclub, alcohol and food service, and arcade games, with slot machines and an outdoor music venue planned down the road.
The reservation is at Flandreau, about a half-hour from Sioux Falls, the state’s largest metropolitan area.’
The project could make Santee Sioux up to $2 million profit a month, and the first joints are set to go on sale on New Year’s Eve.
The tribe estimates it could take in $2 million a month in profits, and that has other tribes taking a keen interest. While there are concerns about getting into the pot business, the potential to increase tribal revenues in the same way gambling casinos did beginning three decades ago makes marijuana a tempting option.
The tribe says it hopes to make money to pay for community services and provide a monthly income for members. Reider added that he hope revenues could fund an addiction treatment center, more housing, and an overhaul for the reservation medical clinic.
“The vast majority of tribes have little to no economic opportunity,” said Blake Trueblood, business development director at the national center for American Indian enterprise development. For those tribes, “this is something that you might look at and say, ‘We’ve got to do something’.”
While a handful of marijuana social clubs have popped up in Colorado, as have pot-themed bed-and-breakfast offers, a legal marijuana resort would be a first in the country. Even in legalization states, smoking in public places is generally forbidden, although efforts are underway to make marijuana social clubs legal in some of them.
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/america-first-marijuana-resort-opened-south-dakota
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America’s First Marijuana Resort Is About to Open—Thanks to This South Dakota Tribe
5th October 2015
South Dakota’s Santee Sioux tribe is moving full speed ahead with plans to open the country’s first marijuana resort, complete with a smoking lounge that will include a nightclub, alcohol and food service, and arcade games, with slot machines and an outdoor music venue planned down the road.
The reservation is at Flandreau, about a half-hour from Sioux Falls, the state’s largest metropolitan area.’
The project could make Santee Sioux up to $2 million profit a month, and the first joints are set to go on sale on New Year’s Eve.
The tribe estimates it could take in $2 million a month in profits, and that has other tribes taking a keen interest. While there are concerns about getting into the pot business, the potential to increase tribal revenues in the same way gambling casinos did beginning three decades ago makes marijuana a tempting option.
The tribe says it hopes to make money to pay for community services and provide a monthly income for members. Reider added that he hope revenues could fund an addiction treatment center, more housing, and an overhaul for the reservation medical clinic.
“The vast majority of tribes have little to no economic opportunity,” said Blake Trueblood, business development director at the national center for American Indian enterprise development. For those tribes, “this is something that you might look at and say, ‘We’ve got to do something’.”
While a handful of marijuana social clubs have popped up in Colorado, as have pot-themed bed-and-breakfast offers, a legal marijuana resort would be a first in the country. Even in legalization states, smoking in public places is generally forbidden, although efforts are underway to make marijuana social clubs legal in some of them.
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/america-first-marijuana-resort-opened-south-dakota