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Rapid City’s Hemp Crackdown Was Already Underway. Now It’s Part of a National Fight.

Aug 5, 2026

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by

DawnSherine Bernard

in Headline, Investigations, Local politics

Rapid City, SD. — When South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley signed onto a 35-state coalition letter this week urging Congress to keep a stricter federal definition of hemp in place, it read like a routine statehouse press release — one AG among three dozen, weighing in on a Washington fight over a 2018 Farm…

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Rapid City’s Hemp Crackdown Was Already Underway. Now It’s Part of a National Fight.