PIERRE, S.D. (KELO.com) — Not one, but two marijuana initiatives will be on the ballot this November in South Dakota. One of those initiatives would legalize medical marijuana and the other would legalize recreational marijuana use.
According to Pew Research, 59 percent of Americans support the legalization of marijuana. But Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom has come out against the recreational measure, calling marijuana a gateway drug.
According to a December 16th USA Today article, Colorado authorities are linking marijuana use to psychosis and schizophrenia in that state, there appears to be a link between marijuana use and suicide, as Colorado youth suicides grew by 77 percent from 2010 through 2015.
Recreational marijuana went legal in that state in 2012. (Colin Strombeck of KELO Radio News contributed to this article.)
