South Dakota’s attorney general has released a final summary for a proposed initiative to repeal the state’s medical marijuana program that a Republican activist is trying to place on the 2024 ballot.
Just days after Attorney General Marty Jackley (R) submitted a draft summary for a separate adult-use cannabis legalization measure, his office announced it finalized the explanation for the anti-reform initiative on Monday.
The conservative activist behind the medical marijuana repeal proposal, Travis Ismay, is also seeking to put an additional measure before voters that would block the state from having future ballot questions to legalize any drug that is federally prohibited.
“This initiated measure repeals South Dakota’s medical marijuana program,” the attorney general’s explanation for the cannabis says. “If approved, that repeal makes all possession, use, cultivation, manufacture, and sale of marijuana and marijuana products a crime. This initiated measure does not affect laws dealing with hemp. Marijuana remains illegal under Federal law.”
In order to qualify for the 2024 ballot, the initiative must receive at least 17,509 valid signatures from registered voters.
Even if Ismay is able to gather enough signature to qualify either measure, its seems unlikely that voters would go along with it at the
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