Not known for being a liberal state by any stretch, we may soon see how people on the left and the right in South Dakota respond to a proposal to decentralize away from D.C. – and legalize medical marijuana in the state.
An organization promoting the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in South Dakota plans to turn in more than 29,000 signatures this week to bring the issue to a public vote.
Emmett Reistroffer of Sioux Falls, director of communications for the South Dakota Coalition for Compassion, said the organization will turn in the petitions Wednesday to the secretary of state’s office in Pierre.
It’s my opinion that those who support the Constitution should get behind this, because even if you want the plant to be illegal, keeping the status quo is requiring everyone else in the country to pay for enforcement in your state.
Sounds similar to many proposals coming out of D.C. these days, doesn’t it?
The only problem with "legalizing" it for medical purposes or any other, is that it creates a new bureaucracy, which takes stolen money (taxes) to run. I am a Medical Marijuana user in Oregon, and while I appreciate not having to outlaw my grow operation, I think the real solution is to simply REMOVE any laws pertaining to it at all. That would splve three problems all at once…
1) those who need it can have it, without having to ask the state for permission
2) the problem of operating a new bureaucracy does not exist
3) black market opportunities diminish dramatically as abundance lowers price, removing marijuana from the list of catalysts for drug related crime.
But then I think the whole "war on drugs" is a total revenue scam and should be abandoned, along with all the other wars on society. Any time you declare "war" on anything, you get more of that thing.
History is my witness.
Cast off the chains. Cannabis prohibition is a violent crime against humanity. George Washington was growing *Cannabis Indica* as the Tenth Amendment was being written. "Sow it everywhere".