A South Carolina House committee has taken up a GOP-led medical marijuana legalization bill—the first action the legislation has seen in the chamber since being approved by the Senate months ago.
Members heard from multiple medical experts and law enforcement officials, including a retired chief of the state sheriffs’ association who gave impassioned testimony in favor of the reform while discussing how cannabis saved his son and could’ve helped his late wife with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
The legislation from Sen. Tom Davis (R) has been billed as strictly conservative, but it’s stalled in the House since February. Now the measure has received consideration from lawmakers in the House Medical Cannabis Ad Hoc Committee.
With just three weeks left in the legislative session, lawmakers have little time to waste to get the legislation 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,
Davis also pointed out over the weekend that, at the same time that an Indian 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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