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South Dakota issues more medical marijuana cards after mass screenings
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The variety of South Dakotans with state-issued medical marijuana ID playing cards has spiked in current weeks.
However crafters of a 45-week-old regulation that compelled the Division of Well being to create the medicinal hashish program say the variety of playing cards issued so far lags behind what they’d anticipated. And there’d be even fewer than the 652 which have been despatched out by DOH if not for mass affected person screenings organized by an out-of-state medical hashish certification firm.
“I feel they are going extremely sluggish,” stated Melissa Mentele, the first drafter of Initiated Measure 26, the poll measure handed by voters in 2020 that legalized medical marijuana in South Dakota and created a framework for the state’s program.
Extra:Mass affected person certification occasion goals to alleviate demand for medical marijuana playing cards in South Dakota
In line with information supplied by DOH, the company issued a mean of two medical marijuana ID playing cards per day between Nov. 8, 2021, when the state opened up the appliance course of, and April 26 of this 12 months. At the moment, 419 playing cards had been issued by the state.
Then MyMarijuanaCards.com, a Michigan-based enterprise that connects people in search of state certification to make use of hashish for medicinal functions with physicians eligible to make that advice, started working in South Dakota. And since then, it has served greater than 300 clients, the overwhelming majority of which have been licensed for medical marijuana use by the corporate’s partnering physicians, MyMarijuanaCards.com founder Molefi Branson advised the Argus Chief this week.
For the reason that firm’s arrival to South Dakota, the day by day price at which DOH is issuing medical marijuana ID playing cards has jumped to greater than 16 with a complete variety of playing cards issued now at 652, in keeping with the most recent out there information.
Even so, Mentele stated that South Dakotans for Higher Marijuana Legal guidelines, the political group behind the state’s ongoing hashish reform efforts, had estimated that hundreds of state residents would qualify as medical marijuana sufferers.
However the longtime cannabis-freedom advocate is not blaming the state for holding the numbers down. Slightly, it is what she characterised as resistance among the many main healthcare programs to embrace the state program and hashish’ function in medication that’s conserving sufferers who would possibly in any other case qualify from getting DOH pot playing cards.
“These main well being programs are creating such a barrier,” she stated. “Realistically, we must always have 10 occasions that within the state of South Dakota.”
Statewide, simply 96 physicians have registered within the well being division’s on-line portal, a mandatory step to certify sufferers as qualifying for the state’s program.
Each Sanford Well being and Avera Well being have declined to offer particulars in regards to the variety of docs of their staffs who’ve licensed sufferers for medical marijuana, nor the variety of certifications made.
Nonetheless, every system is publicly taking a impartial place, issuing statements saying that they don’t help or oppose using medicinal marijuana, however that the willpower to certify sufferers for the state program is on the will of particular person physicians.
“It’s as much as every particular person Sanford supplier to find out using medical marijuana with regard to every affected person’s particular person care plan and what they really feel is medically greatest for his or her sufferers,” stated Dr. Joshua Crabtree, clinic vice chairman for Sanford Well being’s Sioux Falls area.
A scarcity of familiarity with hashish throughout the well being care trade in addition to the best way the voter-passed regulation was written are additionally inflicting hesitation amongst physicians opting to not certify sufferers. Throughout the 2022 Legislative Session, lawmakers heard repeatedly from well being care lobbyists that provisions throughout the statute state that a health care provider who certifies a affected person is testifying that hashish may have a palliative or therapeutic impact.
That is why the Legislature and Gov. Kristi Noem in March authorised a change to the medical marijuana regulation that may require medical professionals solely to diagnose a affected person with a medical situation on the record of DOH’s qualifying circumstances for the medical program.
Extra:South Dakota marijuana group turns in hundreds of signatures to power one other vote on authorized hashish
That statute change, which fits into impact on July 1, is predicted to end in extra physicians collaborating in this system, in keeping with each medical hashish advocates and the healthcare trade.
“We proceed to judge the medical hashish program in South Dakota and adjustments to this system, together with a number of the adjustments made throughout this final South Dakota Legislative Session,” Crabtree stated.
However till then, some South Dakotans will proceed to depend on the out-of-state medical hashish certification firm that is already accounts for as far more than a 3rd of the whole playing cards issued to this point by DOH.
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Videos: Gundy, Players Recap Win against South Dakota State
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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