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The South Dakota Affiliate of the 
National Organization for the Reform 
(Repeal) of Marijuana Laws
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Cannabis Laws in South Dakota

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.  --Thomas Jefferson

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A magazine promoting hemp, liberty, 
and what works.

 

Have you been busted for "drugs" in South Dakota? Was there something bogus about the bust (aside from the fact that the law itself is bogus)?

Did someone lie to get you convicted? Did a prosecutor act like a jerk (see Eric Sage's story)? Did you end up having to take a "deal" that did not reflect justice (even under the justice system's own definition)?

Let us hear from you. We might be able to help, especially if the deal is not done yet. We assure whatever level of anonymity you want. We want your story; we don't want to get you in trouble.

Our aim is to try to decrease the number of people who get reamed the same way in the future.

If you feel more comfortable on the phone, call Bob Newland at 605-255-4032.

Read a true story of how a South Dakota prosecutor punishes people for not fessin' up to crimes they did not commit. 

A South Dakota AIDS sufferer gets busted for growing cannabis when his own daughter turns him in.

SoDakNORML's Mission Statement
 
Whereas
 
Federal and state legislatures have passed unconscionable and unconstitutional laws -- which they enforce brutally and inhumanly -- prohibiting production, sale, or possession of certain naturally-occurring herbs; and
 
Whereas over a million people are in prison in the United States for having "violated" these evil laws; and
 
Whereas federal and state elected officials and government employees have promoted, and continue to promote, outright lies about these herbs;
 
 
We, the members of South Dakota NORML (affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) find it obligatory to:
1. Educate the public, to the best of our ability, of the truth about mood-altering substances in general; and
 
2. Educate the public, to the best of our ability, of the fact that the hemp plant has over 60,000 commercial, industrial, and medical uses, most of which are being filled less efficiently and more environmentally harmfully by other products; and
 
3. Educate the public of the facts concerning cannabis's amzing ability to alleviate suffering in humans; and
 
4. Lobby lawmaking bodies to change the laws concerning production, possession, and sale of these substances to more closely align with generally-accepted standards of human decency and justice.
  
hemp, marijuana, cannabis, South Dakota, petition, ballot drive 
Below this point, the links aren't connected. 
Updating site. 11 May 2008
 
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1929
Founding statement of the war on cannabis.  
 
 
 
 
 
SoDakNORML undresses the politicians
See the controversial ads we ran . . .
April 2, 2002
April 16, 2002
April 30, 2002
SoDakNORML recommends
Reefer Madness
A CD drama about the history of cannabis prohibition
It's enlightening and entertaining. Get it!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A History of Drugs and Prohibition
Quick overview of man's desire for, discovery of, and use of intoxicants and euphorics. And of some mens' desire to punish them for it.
 
92 % of South Dakotans say
"Stop putting ill people in prison
for trying to feel better!"
85 % of South Dakotans say
"Let 'em grow hemp!"
81 % of South Dakotans say
"Let sick people use marijuana!"
 
We poll South Dakota voters on cannabis questions in 2001
 
The South Dakota Legislature says
"4 out of 5 South Dakotans want sanity?"
"We prefer absurdity!"
 
Legislature kills two medical cannabis bills and one industrial hemp bill in 2001
 
We say
"We're gonna put it on the ballot
and let the people vote!"
 
SoDakNORML heads for the trenches again!
Go here for breaking news on ballot drives and other events in 2001
Includes the current newsletter from the South Dakota Cannabis Coalition
 
 
Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness.
 
It comes to bring us evil --only evil-- and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs.
 
(From an 1887 speech by Roger Q. Mills of Texas; quoted more than once during the alcohol prohibition debates in Congress. He proved to be a prophet, as the years 1918-1933 taught us. We're learning the truth of this prophecy again in the so-called "war on drugs".)
Our Mission Statement

Whereas
 
Federal and state legislatures have passed unconscionable and unconstitutional laws -- which they enforce brutally and inhumanly -- prohibiting production, sale, or possession of certain God-given herbs; and
 
Whereas over a million people are in prison in the United States for having "violated" these evil laws; and
 
Whereas federal and state elected officials, employees, and their bootlickers have promoted, and continue to promote, outright lies about these herbs;
 
 
We, the members of South Dakota NORML (affiliate of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) find it obligatory to:
 
1. Educate the public, to the best of our ability, in the truth about mood-altering and mind-altering substances in general; and
 
2. Educate the public, to the best of our ability, of the fact that the hemp plant has over 60,000 commercial, industrial, and medical uses, most of which are being filled less efficiently and more environmentally harmfully by other products; and
 
3. Lobby lawmaking bodies to change the laws concerning production, possession, and sale of these substances to more closely align with generally-accepted standards of human decency and justice.

"Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record." -- Francis L. Young, DEA's own Administrative Law Judge, 1988 (Marijuana: Not Guilty As Charged by David R. Ford, 1997, pp. 38-39.)
 
 
"Marijuana doesn't kick down your door in the middle of the night." -- Richard Cowan, Marijuananews.com
 
 
"I don't have many moral convictions. I don't. But I know what drugs do to young girls." -- SD Governor Bill Janklow, to SD House of Representatives State Affairs Committee, Mar. 1999

 

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