USA opens first ever marijuana resort for dope smokers
The USA's first ever marijuana smoking resort is being opened on the Santee Sioux reservation in South Dakota.
The experiment could offer a profitable new industry for Santee Sioux tribes all over the country.
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Santee Sioux leaders say they plan to grow their own marijuana and sell it in a smoking lounge that will include a nightclub, arcade games, bar and food service and, eventually, slot machines and an outdoor music venue.
The small Santee Sioux tribe already has a successful casino, a 120-room hotel and a 240-head buffalo ranch on the plains of South Dakota.
"We want it to be an adult playground," the tribal president, Anthony Reider, says. "There's nowhere else in America that has something like this."
The tribe said the project could generate up to $2m a month in profit, and work is already underway on the growing facility, reports The Guardian. The first marijuana cigarettes are expected to go on sale 31 December at a New Year's Eve party.
The legalisation of marijuana on the Santee Sioux land came in June, after the Justice Department outlined a new policy that allows Indian tribes to grow and sell marijuana under the same conditions as some states.
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