Over the past two months many groups, members of law enforcement, government officials and community leaders in South Dakota have been campaigning against Initiated Measure 27, which would legalize recreational marijuana for adults over 21.
Some groups, like Protecting South Dakota Kids, have come up with a panoply of negative results they contend legalization would usher. Protecting SD Kids went so far as to claim that marijuana “can cause a permanent drop in intelligence,” followed by two Sioux Falls officials who, along with Mayor Paul TenHaken, challenged what they called “myths” from cannabis activists that state's prisons were full of people with cannabis convictions and that the black market was shutting down in a regulated system.
