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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.
Also in Virginia, SB 696, is aimed at individuals charged with felonies associated with marijuana prior to July 1, 2021 be released. [51] South Carolina Senate Bill 0423, the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act legalizing medical cannabis, was reintroduced on January 19 by Tom Davis (R).
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
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 ...
Weed legalization has become increasingly common in the U.S., despite the fact that marijuana is still illegal on a federal level. As of April 20, 20 states and the District of Columbia have ...
2014: Alaska and Oregon legalize recreational cannabis through ballot measure. 2014: By the end of the year, 10 more states pass low-THC, high-CBD medical cannabis laws: Alabama, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Tennessee, Iowa, South Carolina, Florida, North Carolina, and Missouri. [55]
Senate Bill 375, creating a legal adult-use market under the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority, was approved by its first committee on February 16. [45] Senate Bill 669, legalization of possession for adult use, was introduced in February. [46] South Carolina H 3561 to decriminalize cannabis was introduced on January 10. [47]