This is a trailer for the new Sioux Empire Podcast: Hemp in South Dakota

In 2019 South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem vetoed a popular bill in South Dakota to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp. At the time she famously said that South Dakota was “not ready.” But just over one hundred years ago, a South Dakota Governor would beg Washington and the private sector for help getting an emergency hemp industry started in the state. The Story of how hemp went from commodity to oddity, to war hero, to menace to children, to war hero again, to menace, to a cash crop of the future is next.

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