South Dakota voters on Tuesday rejected a ballot measure seeking to legalize recreational marijuana for the third straight election cycle.
With 92% of the vote counted as of 11:30 a.m. CT Wednesday, the measure was failing 52% to 44%, according to the Associated Press.
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Initiated Measure 29, funded by South Dakota’s medical marijuana industry, would have expanded on an adult-use legalization initiative approved by voters in 2020 that was later declared unconstitutional by a state judge.
To avoid a similar fate, Initiated Measure 29 aimed to legalize marijuana possession and small-scale home cultivation for adults 21 and older but failed to establish any regulatory framework for recreational sales – a stark departure from nearly every other cannabis-legalization referendum.
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