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In 2017, South Carolina re-legalized the growing of industrial hemp, under the auspices of the federal 2014 Farm Bill. The new legislation permits up to 20 cultivators to hold state licenses for 20 acres (8.1 ha) each, expanding to 50 licenses and 50 acres (20 ha) for 2018. [2]
South Carolina Senate Bill 0423, the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act legalizing medical cannabis, was reintroduced on January 19 by Tom Davis (R). [52] [53] A special order on the bill received two thirds majority vote of the state senate on February 7, bypassing further committees and debate before a full floor vote.
Mississippi and South Dakota approve ballot measures to legalize medical cannabis. [77] 2021: South Dakota initiative to legalize recreational use is ruled state-unconstitutional by a circuit court judge. [78] 2021: New York legalizes recreational cannabis through state legislature. [79]
As a region, the South has been slow to embrace marijuana reform. But states are beginning to legalize medical marijuana among other efforts. How marijuana laws have progressed across the South so ...
A proposal to legalize medical marijuana died in a Kansas Senate committee without a vote this year, and an attempt to force debate in the full Senate failed by a wide margin. The strongest and ...
The decision shocked leaders in the state Senate and may have repercussions well beyond failing to make South Carolina one of about 40 states allowing patients to use marijuana as medicine.
[1] [2] Senate floor debate began on January 26, 2022 – the first time cannabis legalization of any kind had been debated in South Carolina. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As of February 9, 2022 [update] , the bill had survived seven days of debate and a vote to gut the bill. [ 6 ]
After seven sessions of circling the statehouse, the medical marijuana bill, sponsored by Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, got a shot on the senate floor.