A Republican South Carolina state senator says that “medical marijuana is now legal” in the state following the Trump administration’s move to enact federal rescheduling—but a GOP congressman who is running to be the next governor says he has a “problem with marijuana,” calling it a “gateway drug.”
State Sen. Tom Davis (R), who has sponsored bills to legalize medical cannabis over a number of sessions, said that under a little-known state law he believes was triggered by federal rescheduling, “we have just become the 41st state that has a legally authorized medical marijuana program.”
“Medical marijuana is now legal in South Carolina,” he told Charleston City Paper.
Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), who is running in next month’s primary for his party’s gubernatorial nomination, has concerns about cannabis.
“From day one, medicinal cannabis never ends up like that, [and] always ends up opening it up to everybody,” he told Marijuana Moment in an interview last week. “I’ve got a problem with that. It’s a gateway drug, and there other options other than marijuana for veterans or anybody who needs it for that matter.”
But regardless of Norman’s opposition, some patients in South Carolina may soon be able to
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