SC Senate passes bill allowing people to use marijuana, related products for medical needs February 16, 2024 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments The South Carolina Senate again on Wednesday passed a bill allowing people to use marijuana and related products for medical needs. Just like in 2022, Republican Tom Davis' bill is off to the House. It died back then on a procedural ruling in the… Read More→
Medical marijuana bill passes key vote in South Carolina Senate February 13, 2024 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments The South Carolina Senate has once again given key approval to a medical marijuana bill, but it's unclear what it's fate will be once it gets to the House. Senators okayed the bill on a 26-17 vote Tuesday afternoon after hours of… Read More→
How marijuana laws have progressed across the South so far this year May 3, 2022 AggregatedNews Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee 0 Comments As a region, the South has been comparably slow to embrace marijuana reform until recently. In the last year, Mississippi and Alabama lawmakers legalized the use of marijuana for qualified medical conditions. Louisiana has taken several steps to expand its… Read More→
South Carolina Senate approves medical marijuana bill, House up next February 10, 2022 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments South Carolina senators Wednesday approved the use of medical marijuana in the state on a 28-15 vote that finished a Republican senator’s seven-year quest to pass the proposal, but the legislation still has some hurdles to pass to become law. The proposal… Read More→
What you need to know about the medical marijuana bill in the South Carolina State House February 3, 2022 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments After seven sessions of circling the South Carolina State House, the medical marijuana bill, sponsored by Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, will have a shot on the Senate floor. As South Carolina debates the "most conservative" medical cannabis bill, perceptions of… Read More→
South Carolina medical marijuana bill sees increased support from Senate January 16, 2021 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments The battle to see medical marijuana legalized in South Carolina restarts with the beginning of a new legislative session in Columbia. For roughly three to four years now, the SC Compassionate Care Act has passed through the SC Senate seeing… Read More→
Medical marijuana proposals eyed in Alabama, Kentucky, South Carolina January 10, 2021 AggregatedNews Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina 0 Comments State legislators in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina have filed or pre-filed bills establishing such medical marijuana programs, according to a Reckon South report. These states would join Mississippi, the latest state to adopt a medical cannabis program, making it the 35th state to legalize medical cannabis. In… Read More→
Patients plead with SC legislators to legalize marijuana, but efforts remain blocked January 26, 2020 AggregatedNews South Carolina 0 Comments A grandmother from Hilton Head Island pleaded with legislators Wednesday to let her ease her suffering legally. But bipartisan efforts to allow South Carolinians to use marijuana as medicine continue to be blocked by opposition from law enforcement. Â Â … Read More→