Most South Dakota voters plan to vote against a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana next month, according to a new poll.
With just under two weeks until the election, the Emerscon College/KELOLAND/The Hill survey found that about 50 percent of likely voters are opposed to the cannabis measure, while 45 percent support it and 5 percent remain undecided.
Voters who plan to support Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, were more likely to back the reform proposal, at 65 percent, compared to 31 percent of those who intend to vote for former President Donald Trump, the GOP nominee.
“The marijuana ballot initiative has the most support among voters under 30, at 68 percent, and most opposition among voters over 70, at 64 percent,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, said in a press release.
The campaign South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws (SDBML) has little time to make up the difference and convince enough voters to pass Initiated Measure 29.
The survey involved interviews with 825 likely voters in South Dakota from October 19-22. The margin of error is +/- 3.3 percentage points.
A separate survey from June also found the initiative trailing, with 52 percent
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