Prime Occasions’ Outlaw Collection is the place the individuals who lived via the true hashish underground inform their very own tales. On this new episode, host Holly Crawford talks with South Dakota’s longtime rabble-rouser, Bob Newland—a ranch child became renegade who pivoted into full-tilt hashish and hemp advocacy.
Bob lines the moments that lit his fuse, from founding SoDak NORML days to organizing the Hemp Hoe Down and status with Pine Ridge leaders as federal businesses mowed down sovereign hemp fields.
Then it will get private: shut calls, court whiplash, and the bare hypocrisy of officers who partied in non-public and punished in public. Bob unpacks why “legalization” hasn’t fastened a lot in any respect, how concern saved excellent other folks silent, and what actual backbone seems like in adverse territory.
It’s a pointy, humorous, unfiltered trip throughout the Black Hills—phase historical past lesson, phase name to motion.