He’s leading an organization called Protecting South Dakota Kids with the message that legalizing pot for adults would be detrimental to children.
Jim Kinyon, a counselor who directs Catholic Social Services in Rapid City, said he was caught by surprise when voters decided to legalize pot in 2020. “To fail at the final hurdle is just an intolerable thought to me.”īut Noem’s successful block of recreational marijuana has inspired a more robust opposition campaign this year. “We have done so much work to get to this point,” Schweich said, recalling the 2020 campaign, ensuing legal battle and efforts to ensure the Legislature implemented a separate medical marijuana ballot measure. A circuit judge and the state Supreme Court agreed.
Kristi Noem authorized a lawsuit arguing it violated a requirement that it address just one subject because it legalized recreational marijuana, medical marijuana and hemp. Schweich added a third argument this year: The will of the voters was overturned.īefore the 2020 constitutional amendment could take effect, Republican Gov. In South Dakota, Schweich’s campaign is using the messages that won over voters in 2020: Pot prohibition wastes law enforcement resources and makes it difficult to get for medical purposes. Voters in three states where Republicans control the governor’s office and both legislative chambers - Arkansas, Missouri and North Dakota - are deciding on recreational marijuana this year, as is politically divided Maryland. Pot legalization advocates have found success primarily through ballot measures rather than legislatures, especially in GOP-held states. Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS/Charlie Neibergall Previous Next Voters in 2020 approved a constitutional amendment to legalize cannabis but it was nullified by a legal challenge. Recreational marijuana legalization will be back on the South Dakota ballot in November. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 16, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. “We need our people to come out and vote.”įILE - South Dakota Gov.
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“I think this is a close race,” he said at a news conference to kick off a statewide voter registration tour last week. And it likely faces a different demographic of voters - older and perhaps less inclined toward the drug - in a midterm election rather than in a presidential year, said Matt Schweich, who organized that campaign and is doing so again this year. This time, recreational marijuana stands alone on the ballot. And though 54% of voters approved a constitutional amendment to legalize cannabis in 2020, that campaign may have benefited from the medical marijuana measure that appeared on the same ballot. It’s facing strong opposition from conservative groups and figures determined to pull the state back from legalizing pot. Legalization is back on the ballot in November, but whether the politically red state will become the first to pass it twice remains in doubt. (AP) - When it comes to marijuana, South Dakota has been a leader among its Great Plains neighbors: one of the first to legalize recreational use, the first to approve both medical and recreational forms on the same ballot and the only one to have its recreational measure reversed.
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