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South Dakota Bill To Ease Felony Punishment For First- And Second-Time Drug Consumption Offenses Advances

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“I think we’d all agree that even though we have a great system, it is failing at least a certain majority of people.” By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Drug ingestion would no longer be a felony crime on the first or second offense under the terms of a bill endorsed by a Senate panel on Tuesday in Pierre. South Dakota is the only state in the nation where a failed drug test alone can draw prison time if the drug in question is classified a…

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Felony ingestion vote in state Senate, embrace of HOPE program mark shift in Pierre • South Dakota Searchlight

State Sen. Tamara Grove, R-Lower Brule, speaks on the South Dakota Senate floor on Jan. 22, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)On Thursday in Pierre, state senators did something no previous Senate had been willing to do: Endorse a bill to change South Dakota’s unique-in-the-nation felony drug ingestion law.  Under the statute, the presence of a controlled substance in someone’s urine carries the same criminal weight as a controlled …

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South Dakota Bill To Ease Felony Punishment For First- And Second-Time Drug Consumption Offenses Advances

“I think we’d all agree that even though we have a great system, it is failing at least a certain majority of people.” By John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Drug ingestion would no longer be a felony crime on the first or second offense under the terms of a bill endorsed by a Senate panel on Tuesday in Pierre. South Dakota is the only state in the nation where a failed drug test alone can draw prison time if the drug in question is classified a…

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Felony ingestion vote in state Senate, embrace of HOPE program mark shift in Pierre

Little-used probation program lauded as better approach to drug abuse

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