Legalized Marijuana Petition will not be appearing as initiated measure on 2016 Ballot

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The Pot Legalization effort is going no farther this year as petition sponsor Ryan Gaddy confirms to KCCR Radio that they’re not going to make the required number of signatures for the ballot:

South Dakotans Against Prohibition Founder Ryan Gaddy says although they won’t see their issue on the ballot in 2016, they did see an uptick in registered voters thanks to their push.

Gaddy adds that the reason why they were not successful this year strictly had to do with dollars…

As the date nears on South Dakotans with the opening of the Flandrea Santee Sioux Tribe’s Marijuana Lounge on New Year’s Eve, Gaddy says the decriminalization law might not die as early as some think. He says that with all the issues surrounding the enforcement of marijuana possession amongst non-natives, state lawmakers will have to pass some type of decriminalization law.

Read (and Listen) to it all here.

14 thoughts on “Legalized Marijuana Petition will not be appearing as initiated measure on 2016 Ballot”

  2. Gaddy was bragging about all this money put into electronic billboards in Sioux Falls at the beginning of the year. Then it was internal turmoil with constant complaints from the admins that all these potheads “liked” their facebook page but no volunteers to help. One Admin said everyone wants to sit on their couches at home , get high and play video games but doesn’t want to help. Constant complaints about unprofessional behavior and profanity. Then there has been questions about just who has been funding their efforts.

    In the end their potheads! What would you expect?

  3. Ah good , the fathers of teenage boys now need not worry about the State of SD contradicting their parenting skills in not allowing Pot to double down their teenage sons brains full of mush with THC.

  4. one useless ballot measure down, many more to go!

    I also disagree that decriminalization charges will need to be passed by the legislature; the current laws will just need to be enforced!

  6. I was thinking of all these other crazy measures (campaign finance reform; the jungle primaries and commission to take power away from elected legislature of redistricting process to an appointed commission) but yes I am for free enterprise and not government control…like Democrats are trying to push. Sadly many republicans are falling for it.

  7. Not much interest in this post, Powers. Lots of disappointed Conservatives, I’d say. REMEMBER … More Repubs voted to legalize weed in CO than Dems or UA’s.

    1. Comrade Lansing this is not Colorado or your socialist utopia where you can sit around smoke pot all day. Move to Mother Russia. Comrade Putin could sure use your culinary skills for the proletariat so they can make a palatable tree bark soup. Their socialist economy predictably is in the tank and it’s going to be a cold winter there.

    2. The opposition was heavily outspent by pot interests in Colorado and other states that have legalized.

    3. Not much interest in this post meaning there’s not much included to interest you or, based upon the relatively few comments, not much interest to folks looking at this post?

      I did find it interesting and was glad that they didn’t get enough sigs to put it on the ballot. Unlike yourself, I have young children to raise, and another legalized way to escape reality is a temptation that isn’t what is needed in this society. I am only libertarian to a point.

  8. anonymous 5:46 – Haven’t you graduated from High School, yet? Keep at it. Even a half-educated haybilly like you can do it.
    If you’d been reading the FreePress you’d know that I don’t support MMJ for your state and here’s why.
    CO took the risk. CO wrote, implemented the paradigm and tweeted it into the marvel of modern legislation that it is. CO deserves ALL the rewards. All the millions$$&, all the thousands of new residents, all the new jobs and all the prestige of being a nat’l trend setter. If your stoners up there want to get high legally come on down. It’s more fun without the fun police looking over your shoulder.

  9. “If you’d been reading the FreePress ”

    When you begin with that, whatever your point, you lose!

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