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South Dakota Bar says lawyers who help marijuana businesses could be disbarred


South Dakota Bar says lawyers who help marijuana businesses could be disbarred
This successive guidances from the South Dakota Bar Association leave a legal cloud hanging for attorneys two months after the state s voters overwhelmingly voted to become one of only just over a dozen states to fully legalize marijuana.
Written By: Christopher Vondracek
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Could attorneys in South Dakota be disbarred for helping set up a legal marijuana dispensary? An ethics committee for the state s bar association now says, maybe.
According to guidance sent to attorneys Wednesday night, Jan. 6, the committee advising appropriate professional conduct for the State Bar of South Dakota says, This question [whether attorneys may advise clients establishing a marijuana business] calls upon the committee to interpret and then apply substantive law, which is outside of the committee s purview. ....

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