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The bill was prefiled December 9, 2020. Primary sponsors were Rep. Bill Herbkersman and Sen. Tom Davis, both Republicans. It was advanced by the Senate Medical Affairs Committee in March 2021, but failed to receive a vote in that year's session, and was scheduled by the Senate majority leader to be the first item debated in 2022.
Medical marijuana for ailing South Carolinians is back on the table. The proposed legislation has evolved as it has knocked at the State House doors for years. ... In 2022, the Senate passed a ...
[30] [31] The bill passed by 239-136 house vote on April 11, 2024. [32] It was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8, with 36 pages of amendments, [33] then passed by the senate on May 16. [34] An amended bill was returned from bicameral conference committee on June 5. [35] [36] On June 13, the bill passed 14-10 in the New Hampshire ...
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 ...
The cultivation of industrial hemp in South Carolina dates back to at least the 18th century. In 1733, an act was passed in the colony to encourage the growth of hemp for its "useful manufacture to his Majesty's Royal Navy". [1] The cultivation of industrial hemp was greatly limited nationwide as a result of the federal 1937 Marihuana Tax Act.
The head of the South Carolina state police force also has opposed efforts to legalize medical marijuana, saying it opens the door to other drug use. ... A legalization bill backed by Republican ...
The year 2022 began with several United States cannabis reform proposals pre-filed in 2021 for the upcoming year's legislative session. Among the remaining prohibitionist states, legalization of adult use in Delaware and Oklahoma was considered most likely, and Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island somewhat less likely; medical cannabis in Mississippi was called likely at the beginning ...
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.