South Dakota's medical marijuana divide erupts amid ‘show committee’ claims
Cannabis advocates, state lawmakers spar after oversight panel recommends more changes to five-year-old cannabis law
Tempers flared at the South Dakota Capitol this week as cannabis-wary lawmakers and medical marijuana advocates clashed over how the state’s fledgling program should be governed.
Accusations that a panel tasked with overseeing the state’s five-year-old medical marijuana law is a “show committee” that’s set out to restrict access to legal cannabis resulted in a legislative candidate having his microphone cut during afternoon proceedings Tuesday.
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