“You’ve done quite the job once again in stacking the committee with anti-cannabis individuals from out of state.”
By Meghan O’Brien, South Dakota Searchlight
Supporters of South Dakota’s medical marijuana industry clashed with a state oversight committee Tuesday about speakers invited to address the group.
The Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee is led by state lawmakers and also includes representatives of healthcare professions, a medical marijuana patient and law enforcement.
Ned Horsted, who operates 605 Cannabis in southeastern South Dakota, told the committee he was frustrated by the choice of speakers invited to make presentations Tuesday.
They included a Harvard professor and Colorado doctor who opposed the federal government’s recent downgrading of medicinal marijuana to a less dangerous class of drugs, and a founder of a nonprofit that says it’s “taking on Big Marijuana.”
Similar clashes have occurred at past committee meetings.
During this year’s legislative session, the state House approved a bill that would have eliminated the committee, but the bill failed in the state Senate.
Horsted referenced some of that history in his comments Tuesday.
“You’ve done quite the job once again in stacking the committee with anti-cannabis individuals from out of state,” said Horsted. “The agendas produced by this committee show evidence of a two-year war
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