SD Gov Sues To Overturn Legal Weed Referendum

The Rapid City Journal reports:

Gov. Kristi Noem said in an executive order Friday that she directed the Highway Patrol superintendent to bring a lawsuit against the voter-approved amendment legalizing marijuana after her spokesman previously told the Journal she hadn’t.

“On Nov. 20, 2020, I directed Colonel Rick Miller to commence the Amendment A litigation on my behalf in his official capacity,” Noem wrote in the order. “At all times thereafter, Colonel Rick Miller has acted as petitioner and plaintiff in the Amendment A litigation under my direction.”

The lawsuit claims the amendment violates the state constitution by not following the “one-subject rule” and because it’s not an amendment but a revision that needed to be approved through a constitutional convention, a more complex process.

In an executive order signed and released Friday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says she directed the filing of the lawsuit against Amendment A, which legalizes recreational marijuana in South Dakota. https://t.co/XMSjebZqqd

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