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