South Dakota residents still can't buy legalized marijuana

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Sixty percent of Americans say marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational use.
47% : "I believe if we move ahead with industrial hemp and we aren't prepared with it from a regulatory standpoint, from an enforcement standpoint and if we don't have the equipment or the dollars to do with correctly, that we will be opening the door to allowing marijuana to be legalized in the state of South Dakota."
44% : That was the constitutional amendment legalizing hemp and marijuana.
42% : Pearman says conservative states nationwide are resistant to legalization of marijuana.
41% : The tribe decided years ago that marijuana was not a high-priority enforcement area.
35% : He says officers should not focus on marijuana but on other drugs, South Dakota Public Broadcasting reported "Fentanyl is the problem, not marijuana," Stocker says.

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