South Dakota activists say they’ve crossed the halfway point for signatures to place a marijuana legalization initiative on the state’s November ballot.
With a turn-in deadline coming up on May 7, South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws (SDBML) said in an email blast to supporters on Friday that it is gearing up for a final push. That involved setting up drive-thru signature collecting stations in several cities over the weekend.
So far, the campaign says it has about 12,500 signatures on hand. Matthew Schweich, executive director of SDBML, stressed that “every signature is crucial to ensuring South Dakotans have another opportunity to vote on cannabis legalization in November!”
Schweich told Marijuana Moment on Monday that the campaign is making “good progress.”
“We’ve got a ways to go and definitely feel the pressure as you always do during a signature drive, but I see a path to qualification,” he said. “We have strong volunteer effort through our partners, including many of the medical cannabis businesses here, so it’s a team effort.”
As he alluded to in the email blast, if the petitioning effort is successful this wouldn’t be the first time that South Dakotans have had a chance to decide on
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