A South Dakota man who unsuccessfully attempted to repeal the state’s voter-approved medical marijuana law at the ballot last year is taking a different approach in 2025. As a newly elected state lawmaker, conservative activist Travis Ismay is now seeking to end the program legislatively with a new bill he filed.
While Ismay’s citizen initiative didn’t make it to the ballot last November, he was elected to represent South Dakota’s 28B district, and he wasted little time reviving his effort to eliminate the state’s voter-approved medical cannabis law.
On Monday, he filed House Bill 1101, which would repeal the medical marijuana statutes altogether, effectively ending the program. And he was joined by four other members of the GOP-controlled House in hopes of achieving that outcome, including one of the chamber’s majority whips.
While voters approved the law with nearly 70 percent support in 2020, Ismay first tried to reverse the reform as a citizen, filing an initiative that he sought to place on the 2024 ballot. The state attorney general released a final summary of the proposal, but it did not ultimately qualify.
Prior to the election, backers of a separate ballot measure to legalize adult-use cannabis in South Dakota—which
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