The two South Carolina Republican candidates in a runoff election for their party’s nomination to serve as the state’s next governor say they are open to signing legislation to legalize medical marijuana if elected to the job.
The moderator of a debate on Tuesday noted that “even ruby red states” are moving to allow medical cannabis use, pressing both contenders on whether they believe there is a pathway for it to be legalized in South Carolina.
Pamela Evette, currently the state’s lieutenant governor, said her father died a “horrible death” from lung cancer and that “if I could have given him something that would have eased his pain in the last few days of his life, I would have done it.”
“If the General Assembly can bring me, as governor, a piece of legislation that doesn’t end up being an open door to recreational use, I would heavily sit down and look at that,” she said.
“But I would bring in experts and doctors to make sure that we can tighten that to really just help people who medically need it, people who have tried everything and people who are sitting in the last minutes of their life—because nobody should
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