Looks like it has a good chance. Better buy Pitty Patt Powwers some tissue;
Hello Everyone;
Tomorrow, South Dakotans for Compassion will submit more than 29000 signatures to the So. Dak. Secretary of State to begin the process of certifying the South Dakota Safe Access Act for the 2010 ballot. A minimum of 16777 valid signatures (of folks registered to vote in SD) are necessary to qualify the measure for the ballot.
The petition drive, which began in April of 2009, was financed entirely from within South Dakota. We do not know of any cannabis-related measure which has ever achieved a ballot in a state financed entirely from within the state.You can read the South Dakota Safe Access Act here.Watch for news stories on the SoDak Safe Access Act in South Dakota beginning tomorrow. See one Rapid City (SD) TV station’s pitiful early coverage here. (Scroll down the page to the appropriate video.)Best regards and thanks to all of you for your help!Emmett ReistrofferSouth Dakotans for Compassion
The hypocrisy is that:
Pat wants the Nanny State,
Pat wants the Nanny State,
Pat wants the Nanny State!
Portugal decriminalized personal use.
Crime went down.
“Addiction” and use went down.
Tax it, and revenues (from voluntary payers) will go up.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/wtpapers/greenwald_whitepaper.pdf
there truly is a God, if this again gets on the ballot in SD.
(and i aint talking that ghost dude)
It’s legally prescribed in Colorado and California. Colorado has about 1,000 outlets and people are always lined up outside. Certainly, not this many people need it. It’s been proven to be no more addictive than cigarettes and doesn’t lead to harder drugs use. It’s a viable market. For South Dakota, there’s desperately needed tax revenue and agricultural merit. It can be grown indoors as a winter crop.
Illegal street sales would decline. Law enforcement cost could be half. Prisons would be less crowded and reserved for violent offenders.
Most of us (me included) do not use it. However, if it helped for certain ailments, I’d consider it.
Rapid City Journal ( http://www.rapidcityjournal.com ) had 3 paragraphs about it on page A-3 of Jan. 19 newspaper. I find myself checking here for news our local propaganda hides.
There’s also something about a $39 million fuel plant partnership between Crow Creek Sioux and LA company. Major design, construction, and operation jobs focused from but not located in Sioux Falls. Another ‘we’ll not pay off your corrupt city leaders’ event.
I agree 100% and I’m not even high right now.
Medical MJ should be legal and recreational use should be decriminalized. Make it a fine like a parking ticket if you are busted without a card using.
Let’s go even further and bring along the industrial Hemp movement. Like PG said, SD could be a mecca for the production and value-added processing of it. A whole new generation of wealth would be created in this truly “Green” industry and there would be little to no social impact that all the naysayers predict.
But the big Agri chemical companies hate hemp, because it has no natural enemies. Farmers plant it and harvest it, that’s it. No pesticides, no chemical fetilizers, zilch. Now how can THEY make money if Farmers aren’t buying their products?
Illegal street sales would decline. Law enforcement cost could be half. Prisons would be less crowded and reserved for violent offenders.
There’s where you’d see the real resistance. People involved in the law-enforcement and prison industry would be out of jobs. Budgets for the DEA, state cops, and local PDs would be slashed due to them not having hundreds and thousands of people to arrest and incarcerate. The people who do the arresting and incarcerating have a vested interest in MJ remaining illegal and on the same level as heroin.
Weed should be completely legal anywhere you can drink alcohol, and in any amount. It’s not a dangerous drug any more than my 30 year-old scotch.
The rest should have small amounts and use decriminalized. That way people who are actually addicted to drugs like heroin, meth, and crack will be more likely to seek treatment without fear of jail time.
Isn’t something like 90% of people that are incarcerated is due to drugs and alcohol?
It’s a high percentage. I’m not sure if it’s that high though.
I remember the AZ attorney general saying a while back that 70% of the money fueling the violence along the Mexican border comes from pot smuggling.
If people woke up one day and were able to grow it in their back yards, that trade would dry up and the druglords wouldn’t be able to buy weapons, ammo, and policemen like I buy beer.
Sounds like California is getting pretty close to full decriminalization if not full legalization. The only problem they might have is with the feds.
I’ve never used the stuff and never will – but even I can see it makes no sense to continue prosecuting people for using it or buying it or possessing it. It is a waste of taxpayer dollars to fight it, especially when it is less harmful to the body than either cigarettes or alcohol – both of which are legal.
Legalize it.
It will be the same as having a black president: before the election it was unthinkable – now it’s like: big deal, so what? …what was all the fuss about?
Legalize it and tax it. Take the profit out of the hands of the drug dealers and put them out of business.
And for goodness’ sakes; someone sit the little church ladies down and explain to them that legalizing marijuana doesn’t make it’s use mandatory.
Believe it or not, some little old church ladies support it, as long as it is prescribed by a doctor.
Lst time I was in LA the whole danged town smelled like hippies.
This was an interesting story;
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_d3351424-0623-11df-ba0e-001cc4c03286.html
“Law enforcement officials say they worry others, including teenagers, also will find ways to get the drug.”
Because, yah know, they aren’t smoking it already.