A South Carolina House committee will hold a hearing on a Senate-passed medical marijuana legalization bill this week—raising expectations that lawmakers may finally enact the GOP-led measure in the final days of the 2024 session after months of delay. And a Republican congresswoman from the state is urging supporters to “keep pushing.”
The legislation from Sen. Tom Davis (R) has been billed as strictly conservative, but it’s yet to move since being delivered to the House in February. Now the House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee has announced that a Medical Cannabis Ad Hoc Committee will take up the measure on Tuesday.
Davis pointed out that there are just three weeks left in the session to get the bill through the full chamber before potentially going to the desk of Gov. Henry McMaster (R). Any amendments made in the House would mean that it’d need to return to the Senate for concurrence, so lawmakers have little time to waste.
The sponsor also pointed out that, at the same time that an Indiana tribe in neighboring North Carolina is opening its first medical cannabis dispensary, his “even-tighter” bill has laid idle in the “freedom loving House,” despite recent polling
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