{"id":79949,"date":"2025-01-29T07:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/south-dakota-gop-lawmaker-seeks-to-repeal-voter-approved-medical-marijuana-law\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T19:47:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T03:47:56","slug":"south-dakota-gop-lawmaker-seeks-to-repeal-voter-approved-medical-marijuana-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/south-dakota-gop-lawmaker-seeks-to-repeal-voter-approved-medical-marijuana-law\/","title":{"rendered":"South Dakota GOP Lawmaker Seeks To Repeal Voter-Approved Medical Marijuana Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A South Dakota man who unsuccessfully attempted to repeal the state\u2019s voter-approved medical marijuana law at the ballot last year is taking a different approach in 2025. As a newly elected state lawmaker, conservative activist Travis Ismay is now seeking to end the program legislatively with a new bill he filed.<\/p>\n

While Ismay\u2019s citizen initiative didn\u2019t make it to the ballot last November, he was elected to represent South Dakota\u2019s 28B district, and he wasted little time reviving his effort to eliminate the state\u2019s voter-approved medical cannabis law.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he filed House Bill 1101, which would repeal the medical marijuana statutes altogether, effectively ending the program. And he was joined by four other members of the GOP-controlled House in hopes of achieving that outcome, including one of the chamber\u2019s majority whips.<\/p>\n

While voters approved the law with nearly 70 percent support in 2020<\/a>, Ismay first tried to reverse the reform as a citizen, filing an initiative that he sought to place on the 2024 ballot. The state attorney general released a final summary of the proposal<\/a>, but it did not ultimately qualify.<\/p>\n

Prior to the election, backers of a separate ballot measure to legalize adult-use cannabis in South Dakota\u2014which voters rejected last November<\/a>\u2014had called on state officials to scuttle Ismay\u2019s initiative<\/a>. South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws argued that petitions in support of the medical cannabis repeal measure failed to follow state requirements.<\/p>\n

Now, with a seat at the table in the legislature, he\u2019s evidently feeling emboldened to take another approach<\/a> to the proposed repeal.<\/p>\n

With respect to adult-use legalization efforts in the state, former Gov. Kristi Noem (R)\u2014who was recently confirmed to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the second Trump administration\u2014was among the opponents of the reform proposal. In a video ad released last year, she urged constituents to reject the reform initiative<\/a>, stating that it\u2019s \u201cnot good for our kids\u201d and won\u2019t \u201cimprove our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After voters approved medical cannabis legalization in 2020, Noem tried to get the legislature to approve a bill to delay implementation<\/a>\u00a0for an additional year. But while it cleared the House, negotiators were unable to reach an agreement with the Senate in conference, delivering a defeat to the governor.<\/p>\n

In response,\u00a0Noem\u2019s office started exploring a compromise<\/a>, with one proposal that came out of her administration to decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of cannabis, limit the number of plants that patients could cultivate to three and prohibit people under 21 from qualifying for medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

In the 2022 legislative session, the House\u00a0rejected a legalization bill that the Senate had passed<\/a>, effectively leaving it up to activists to get on the ballot again.<\/p>\n

A Marijuana Interim Study Committee, headed by legislative leaders, was established to explore cannabis policy reform, and the panel in November 2021 recommended that the legislature\u00a0take up legalization<\/a>. The House-defeated legislation was one of the direct products of that recommendation.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Chris Wallis \/\/ Side Pocket Images.<\/em><\/p>\n

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