PINE RIDGE - During last week’s tribal council meeting, with a vote of 17-0-1, the council voted in favor of a new tax payment verification procedure for marijuana sales cash funds and a week and a half ago, the Marijuana Commission, the executive director, the tribe’s treasurer, director of the revenue department, council reps and the tribe’s legal department met in Spearfish to evaluate and amend the Marijuana ordinance; it was the third in a series of meetings. “Yes, there have been problems as we’ve rolled out a marijuana industry on Pine Ridge Reservation, we’ve made adjustments, we instituted biotech,...
