Representative and theocrat Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) says he’s getting tons of thank-yous for his role in fighting Initiated Measure 27, the marijuana-legalization proposal that South Dakota voters rejected last week:
“Thank you for all you did to keep marijuana out of South Dakota!” writes Marj in her psalmy note.
Um, Marj, I hate to break it to you, but no one—no legislator and no law—is keeping marijuana out of South Dakota.
Marj’s fantasy of a pot-free SD is pricked by Deutsch’s own party boss, Dan Lederman. According to Joe Sneve’s report in The Dakota Scout, SDGOP chairman Lederman runs Dakota Health and Wellness, one of South Dakota’s certified cannabis cultivators.
Growing pot, peddling bail bonds, promoting cage-fighting, lobbying for CO2 pipelines and the Saudis, leading South Dakota Republicans—wow! Does Dan Lederman have any non-toxic vocations?
Deutsch’s campaigners branded IM 27 as an effort to protect kids against a big push by big out-of-state marijuana businesses. But perhaps the No on 27 campaign had as much to do with protecting the SDGOP party boss’s corner of the South Dakota marijuana market.
Bless their hearts. Recall that the former guy’s AG rescinded the Cole memo and freed tribal nations to pursue cannabis economic development in states like southern Dakota. So, expect my home state’s attorney general to sue the Biden administration for reasons we can only imagine.
https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2022/11/16/lawmakers-look-to-restrict-expansion-of-medical-cannabis-conditions/
Miranda Gohn finances an entire anti-cannabis crusade on how Big Dope drives the demon weed psychosis but Dan Lederman gets a pass?
Not one cannabis question on the 2022 Colorado ballot. No tweaks to the “smooth as silk” system, which serves as the template for most states who are legalizing. No cities, town, or villages voting to repeal. Miranda Gohn and her “Gohn Squad” couldn’t get anything but ridicule in CO so they took the lies they wrote about us to SD and made bank off who knows who.
We did have three alcohol questions on the card, though. I voted to NOT allow liquor store owners to own more than one liquor license. I voted to allow restaurants to deliver wine and mixed cocktails along with food orders sent on delivery. That one failed. And I voted to allow wine sales in grocery and convenience stores.
In short, “Weed is steady, Scottie.”
PS: 2021 state revenue from the Devil’s Lettuce was a record $423.5 million on $2.19 billion in sales. (Visit Colorado ~ You know, for the scenery)
In the legislatures of South Dakota, the liquor lobby has several friends who sit amongst the bodies. A new one joins this year. If the liquor lobby could get the bone cracker caucus behind them, they would run the state.
Yes, Grudz, you are correct…Liquor lubes the Republican machine.
Dan Lederman used to be taller than he is wide but not any more.
https://www.thedakotascout.com/p/gop-chairman-doubling-as-marijuana
Why anyone would want to be on a list that could lead to harassment in Kristi Noem’s South Dakota remains a mystery.
A Black Hills town named for a war criminal has snuffed therapeutic cannabis operations but will burn a native insect in effigy once again.
https://myblackhillscountry.com/content/city-wont-allow-cannabis-cultivation-manufacturing
Larry – can confirm. Law Enforcement is eager to get the database.
“SDGOP party boss’s corner of the South Dakota marijuana market.”
This ^ is correct.
27 would have been the biggest upset in political history.
It was the SD deep state throwing its riled-up Christian constituency in hopes they wouldn’t investigate election rigging from birth (first the mind, then the ballot, and if that fails, the counting machines).
No way in hell 27 would have ever passed, even if it had enough votes in my opinion.
It was also poorly written, to make things worse.
But I’m already seeing another draft coming around the bend that looks like it hits the sweet spot.
This fight is over, but most people don’t realize it, yet.
Focus on election integrity.
If you think our elections are clean, fight to keep them that way to pursuing the same strategy as those who think the elections are dirty: hand-count the precincts, create jobs to count (a good thing even for conservatives since elections are up-stream of some pretty bad or good things).
That is all.
“hrowing its riled-up Christian constituency” a bone
(sorry for the typo)