South Dakota’s attorney general has officially released a draft summary of an initiative to legalize marijuana that advocates hope to place on the November 2024 ballot.
The procedural development brings the campaign, South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws (SDBML), one step closer to being able to collect signatures to put the measure before voters next year.
But advocates are first planning to use the 10-day public comment period that started after Attorney General Marty Jackley (R) submitted the draft summary last week to request a revision, as it currently says that the measure authorizes the “distribution” of cannabis even though there’s no sales component to the initiative.
That issues represents a key change to the initiative that the campaign originally filed in December. The previous version would have permitted existing medical cannabis dispensaries to sell products to adult consumers, but those provisions were removed in order to avoid running up against a legal challenge.
“One thing people should recognize is the difficulty of the single subject rule in South Dakota and how it’s been used to overturn a successful issue in the past,” SDBML Director Matthew Schweich told Marijuana Moment on Monday, referencing a state requirement for ballot measures to
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