South Dakota: Medical Marijuana Supporters Submit Petition Signatures

PIERRE - An effort to legalize medical marijuana makes one step closer to getting on the 2016 ballot.

This happens just days after the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, fearing a federal raid, burned its marijuana crop as it's plan to sell pot temporarily goes up in smoke. 

Meanwhile, supporters of legalizing medical marijuana are not giving up.

The group New Approach South Dakota collected enough signatures to bring its petition to legalize medical marijuana to the state capitol and to voters.

It was a special delivery to the Secretary of State's office, more than 16,000 names of South Dakotans who support legalizing the drug.

New Approach South Dakota organizer Melissa Mentele said "it was such a hard battle because some of our volunteers are handicapped, or parents of handicapped children, so it's not like we're all out there running, and healthy to do this every single day. We've done it in...

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