SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — He doesn’t think Governor Kristi Noem will ever change her mind on industrial hemp.
Democrat State Representative Oren Lesmeister of Corson/Dewey will be one of the prime movers for legalizing hemp in the 2020 State Legislature.
“I don’t know if we will ever get her to be a believer in it. I think she is pretty set in her ways. She’s planted her feet..”
Governor Noem vetoed the hemp bill passed by the 2019 State Legislature, so pro-hemp lawmakers would have to get a veto-proof majority this time to get anywhere.
Noem is concerned that legalizing hemp could cause problems for law enforcement. Lesmeister tells Kelo Radio It’s Your Business Show with Bill Zortman that that is just not so.
“We have talked to so many other states who have been doing this for four or five years and they’re getting along just plumb fine.”
