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I don't know about sex trafficking as despite significant efforts to "catch" sex traffickers it's mostly turned up some sex workers and locals soliciting them, but that's another story. For sure drugs and gang members and traffic accidents (12 motorcycle deaths statewide both before and after and during the rally) and folks who just want to party and watch the show. I'm guessing some of the drugs included marijuana and had our governor not worked so hard to over turn the will of the people, I'm thinking we'd have seen revenues from recreational marijuana use make up this year's shortfall. I'm not sure our purported "SD values" have ever been antithetical to the rally (or at least to making money off of it as Chuck notes).

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The Sturgis Motor Cycle Rally is Sex Trafficking, Drugs, Criminal Gangs, and Traffic Deaths. SD Values? Is it OK as long as there is a lot of Tax Revenue? But Marijuana is not?

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