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Medical marijuana gains a strategy in S.D.


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Medical marijuana advocates in South Dakota will try Legislature first, then possibly a ballot initiative in 2016.

The effort to make marijuana legal for medical use in South Dakota will go on this year without one of the cause's prominent organizers and activists.

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Emmett Reistroffer says he will be moving to Denver by the end of December to take a job in Colorado's marijuana industry.

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But at a South Dakota Medical Marijuana Summit on Saturday in Sioux Falls, Reistroffer told about two dozen medical marijuana proponents and a handful of people who attended to learn about the issue that the best chance to make cannabis a legal medical drug is to use the initiative process to get the question on the ballot in 2016, a presidential election year, when voter turnout will be great.

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