Cannabis advocates in South Dakota submitted roughly 29,000 signatures this week to get an adult-use marijuana legalization referendum on the state’s November ballot.
That total is well above the 17,508 valid signatures required by state law to get a referendum on a ballot.
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But those signatures now must be certified by Secretary of State Monae Johnson, the Associate Press reported, and she has until Aug. 13 to do so.
The ballot initiative petition doesn’t propose any business licensing, taxation or other regulations, according to the AP.
This is the third time in four years that South Dakotans are trying to legalize recreational cannabis.
In 2020, South Dakota became the first state where voters approved both recreational and medical marijuana legalization in the
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