PC works in the context of cannabis.

We can debate the pros and cons of marijuana legalization another day, but let’s first dispense with the asinine argument that hemp and marijuana are the same.

Now Noem finds herself in a direct showdown with the Legislature. Her only hope is to kill the bill in the Senate. If she can't, she faces the prospect of vetoing the bill and having the Legislature override her veto.

Dennis Daugaard was always candid about the amount of political capital he had as governor. Political capital, he would say, was a finite resource, to be used on issues where it mattered.

In her first legislative session, Noem has chosen to spend political capital on a harmless weed that grows in the wild. A weed that, even if it isn’t as miraculous as its proponents say, is probably a net benefit to society.