South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem
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In the order, Mention that the “initiative process used to place the amendment” to legalize marijuana and require the legislature to pass laws guaranteeing access to marijuana for medical use “was not correct and was in violation of the procedures are set forth in the South Dakota Constitution. ”
Noem’s order states that too The Chief Superintendent of Highway Patrol, Colonel Rick Miller, has legal standing to denounce the amendment because he is acting on behalf of the governor.
In filed a lawsuit in late November, Miller and Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom claimed that the constitutional amendment, Amendment A, violated rules against changing more than one subject at a time.
Amendment A included the legalization of marijuana, regulated its recreational use, taxed it, guaranteed access to medical marijuana, and state legislatures must pass laws regulating hemp.
Instead, Miller and Thom argue that wider revisions to the state constitution should be approved through a constitutional convention, said The Associated Press.
Meanwhile South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg (R) ‘s office and a group of citizens campaigning for the change, which would take effect on July 1, argued that the change concerns only one topic: cannabis.
Amendment A was passed with 54 percent support in the Nov. 3 election, while a separate question about legalizing medical marijuana got nearly 70 percent.
Noem was one of the biggest opponents of marijuana legalization, calling the vote “the wrong choice” in a statement released two days after the election.