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 b0red5tiff
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 Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See 
#8122447 - 03/09/08 04:22 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/16406861.html
Sioux Falls Police have busted what they call the largest marijuana growing operation they've seen. Officers arrested five people, took away more than $9,000, 192 marijuana plants, 17 LSD dosage units and 11 ecstasy pills.
Charges for the five arrested range from Possession of Drug Paraphernalia to Drug Possession with Intent to Distribute.
So how easy is it to find illegal drugs in Sioux Falls? Is it's getting easier? Or are citizens and law enforcement just getting better at finding it when there is drug activity Plus, could the weather play a factor?
One thing is for certain about winter in South Dakota, it keeps people inside. Take 10th street for example. On a normal summer night at this time, you'd find plenty of people out here at this time. Right now you won't find any.
For Sioux Falls Police officer Nick Butler who patrols the city's streets night in and night out, narcotics are one of several types of illegal activity he finds. When it comes to drugs, Officer Butler says marijuana is the most common. One reason why it's, I think that marijuana is easier to find is because of the real distinct odor that it has. It's pretty easy to determine what it is when someone's been smoking marijuana or their possessing it."
In one central Sioux Falls neighborhood where police recently stepped up their patrols, one man who didn't want to be identified told us the amount of trouble around here, both fights and drugs is pretty consistent. "I would say that it is. People are mostly indoors during the winter. You don't see it as much as you do in the summer when people are out and about, that doesn't, stuff does happen though."
Several officers tell me one reason they believe we have seen several large drug busts here in the city recently is because more citizens are becoming aware of what to look for. And when they see it, they're calling police.
One trend in drug activity officers tell us they are seeing involves meth. They say since the state has placed products with pseudoephedrine behind the counter, they are seeing almost no meth that's made locally. Most of the meth that is getting to Sioux Falls is coming from Mexico.
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Irishdrunk
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8122496 - 03/09/08 05:14 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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no shit......its a crap hole......like they'd see alot of other drugs.....
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 downlowfunk
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: Irishdrunk]
#8122680 - 03/09/08 07:22 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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No worries citizens of the Dakotah's. Move to The Republic of Lakota and tell that evil substance tax man to stay in America.
Http://www.republicoflakota.com
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Visionary Tools
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: downlowfunk]
#8122852 - 03/09/08 09:02 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Since when was common cannabis newsworthy? I'd be surprised to hear about a region (short of Japan or Iceland) where another drug was more popular than cannabis or booze.
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jccc
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: Visionary Tools]
#8122876 - 03/09/08 09:11 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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ok this is off topic.....
downlowfunk I visited the site you left about the republic of lokota and im confused...are they apart of america or not?
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downlowfunk
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: jccc]
#8123103 - 03/09/08 10:41 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, The Lakotah tribe says that all treaties with the United States are no longer valid. They are starting their own nation. Watch the video. As for if or how it will really exist when the Demon nation surrounds all sides? I do not know.
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EntheogenicPeace
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Re: Sioux Falls Police Say Marijuana Most Common Drug They See [Re: jccc]
#8123127 - 03/09/08 10:50 AM (4 years, 2 months ago) |
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The whole area in question is part of the U.S. & has been since the mid-to-late 19th century in violation of a treaty signed between the U.S. government & various Indian tribes that were residing (nomadic) there at the time.
They are part of America & (some*) want to secede, but I unfortunately don't see this going real far.
* The demographics are complex, like almost any society. Presently, the only steady jobs on the reservations in that area are government ones (it's casino jobs on other reservations... there probably are a few in that broader, highlighted area, not counting Deadwood which isn't under any tribal control). Those who have these positions, at least more upper-level positions, like the security (& sometimes wealth in the case of casinos) & thus aren't big advocates of change, certainly not drastic change. Many, from the reservation, who do go through with an education tend to want to leave the despair, poverty & hopelessness of the reservation & assimilate into "white" American culture & put the reservation behind them & see very little prospect for its improvement so thus don't have any ambition to go back & work to improve it. On the reservations themselves, substance abuse (primarily alcohol) is crippling, fertile land & usable resources are absent (Native Americans were intentionally herded unto the worst land throughout U.S. history), & standard-of-living indicators are that of third-world countries. This is a brief summery... one that I think is sufficient for your inquiry.
What Russell Means (& other independence advocates) want to do is very akin to classic libertarian & anarchist principles of self-sufficiency (which, not coincidentally, is how they've lived for all of their history until very recent times), because they've seen how disastrous & futile state-sponsored (pseudo)socialism has been on reservations. One of the things they want to be able to do, but are presently denied, is to be able to grow hemp for building materials, food, clothing & paper (& the countless other applications it has as well). The land in much of that area (especially the reservations themselves) is poorly suited for most (if not all)other useful agriculture crops, hence hemp is essential to economic revival & opportunity.
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Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe.
Even the rocks... as they swelter in the sun along the silent seashore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events... and the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred.
And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.
- Chief Seattle
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