OUR OPINION: Legalizing marijuana on reservations not viable solution

Some American Indian reservations were dry -- meaning alcohol sales were banned -- for decades until relatively recently. South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation was dry for 124 years before it lifted its prohibition in 2013.

Why? Because some tribal members consider alcoholism a plague.

At Pine Ridge, booze was finding its way onto that reservation and troubles followed. Oddly, a year after the ban was dropped, the tribe was among the first in the nation to consider legalizing marijuana.

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