“You’ll find people who are willing to crap in their own nest for their profit. “Clearly some of our convenience stores and some of our local businesses plan on peddling this product,” Kinyon said. The measure says that home-grown plants are allowed in those communities that don’t allow for retail sales. Kinyon points to the initiated measure’s rules about home-grown plants and asserts that retail outlets will be in South Dakota sooner rather than later. If the Legislature fails to act, he said he’ll be back with another initiated measure in 2024. Regulating the retail sale of marijuana and the taxation that accompanies it will likely be something considered in the next session of the Legislature, Schweich said. “We don’t lock up anyone in the state of South Dakota for an ounce of marijuana.” “Has anyone talked to their sheriff or their local police department or their judges?” Kinyon asked. “By passing Measure 27, we’ll eliminate the threat of arrest for all medical cannabis patients in South Dakota over the age of 21.”Īccording to Kinyon, emphasizing the fear of arrest is a scare tactic. “Not everybody that’s got a legitimate need for medical cannabis is able to get a card right now,” Schweich said.
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He said legalizing cannabis will free up law enforcement and the courts to work on other crimes while ensuring that patients who need medical marijuana can get it without fear of arrest. Schweich said most IM27 supporters are concerned about how arrests for violating marijuana laws can disrupt or ruin lives. “All I need is a handkerchief and I think I can wipe enough lipstick off this pig.” In the 2020 election “they spent millions of dollars to confuse and make it unclear what they’re doing and what their intention is,” Kinyon said. Kinyon notes that South Dakota voters turned down chances to legalize recreational marijuana in 20.
He is the chairman of Protecting South Dakota Kids which opposes IM27. No matter how the measure is written, Jim Kinyon thinks it’s a bad idea. It allows for the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana by people over age 21, the possession of a limited number of plants for home growing and sets civil penalties for the violation of marijuana-related restrictions. Schweich describes Initiated Measure 27 as a shorter, simpler version of Amendment A. It was an attack on the initiative process, that delay.” “I think that was a pathetically shameful act. “The worst part of the Amendment A case was the South Dakota Supreme Court took so long and deprived us of guidance as to how we should draft our 2022 initiative,” Schweich said. The court got the case on April 28, 2021, and didn’t make its ruling until the day before Thanksgiving 2021. It’s not the Supreme Court’s ruling that rankles Schweich so much as the timing. He’s the campaign manager for Yes on 27 for South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws. That scenario still rubs Matthew Schweich the wrong way. Despite finding favor with voters, the amendment was challenged in court and defeated. Initiated Measure 27 is a scaled-down version of the Amendment A that voters approved in the last election.
BROOKINGS - It may seem like deja vu for South Dakota voters this year as they will once again be deciding whether or not they want the state to allow recreational marijuana.
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