Supreme Court hears recreational pot case. Now South Dakota awaits a decision.
PIERRE — Nearly six months after a majority of South Dakota voters cast ballots in support of legalizing marijuana, a government-led legal challenge seeking to keep marijuana use a crime has had its last day in court.
But the fate of Constitutional Amendment A, a measure approved by voters last November that would make possession, cultivation and sale of pot legal starting July 1, won't be known until the South Dakota Supreme Court hands down its decision in the coming weeks.
"I'm going to completely defer to the court on that," Sioux Falls attorney Brendan Johnson told the Argus Leader in reference to when a ruling might be issued.
His comment came moments after he concluded his final arguments in defense of Amendment A on behalf of South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws, which placed the question of legal recreational marijuana before the voters.
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