Native American Pot Resort Plans Suspended Until Tribe Gets Legal Guidance From US Government, Report Says

An American Indian tribe that planned to open the nation’s first marijuana resort is destroying its crop and suspending the project until it gets legal guidance from the U.S. government. Pictured: Sioux Indians, whose ancestral land is located in South Dakota's Black Hills, perform a ceremony in 1997 at Brompton Cemetery in London.

A Native American tribe that planned to open the first marijuana resort in the U.S. announced over the weekend that it was destroying its crop and temporarily suspending the plans in South Dakota while leaders sought legal guidance from the federal government. The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, which planned to open a marijuana lounge on New Year’s Eve, was the first tribe in South Dakota to legalize the drug after U.S. officials suggested in a memo released last year that they were permitted to, the Associated Press reported.

Seth Pearman, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe’s lawyer, said...

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