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  • Ryan Alexander-Tanner
Got your legal cannabis now? Good. Roll one up or fire up the vaporizer as we look at what's going on outside our state.

South Dakota is opening a canna resort—and while I have been vaping, that's not a typo. That liberal bastion of progressive activism, South Dakota, has plans to open the nation's first resort for cannabis consumption. The Santee Sioux tribe, all 400 of them, have had success operating a hotel and casino, along with a 240-head bison ranch, according to the AP. Now they plan to open what they're calling an "adult playground," where the tribe will grow and sell more than 30 strains of cannabis in a complex that will include a smoking lounge, nightclub, restaurant, and, eventually, slot machines and an outdoor music venue.

• In 2014, arrests for cannabis rose to 700,933 in the United States, up from 693,482 in 2013, according to an FBI report. We break down the numbers to tell you what this means—enforcing marijuana laws costs us $3.6 billion a year.

Donald Trump, the living "burnt orange" edition of Mr. Potato Head, has started running an attack that asks of Jeb! Bush, "Are we sure it was only 40 years ago?" regarding his recent admission that he smoked cannabis in 1975. I can't look at the Donald without being reminded of comic Anthony Jeselnik's joke at Trump's Comedy Central Roast: "The only difference between you, Donald, and Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street is that nobody's going to be sad when you get cancer."

Read more about these stories in this week's Cannabuzz!