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Mission Statement Site Directory Email SoDakNORML Join SoDakNORML Get updates from SoDakNORML Send us an email, and we'll send you regular info about events we may not have time to post on our website. 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 Hemphasis 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. A story from a South Dakotan who experienced the endemic corruption of ethics among cops and lawyers.
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.

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