“With THC drinks, it’s different from alcohol that you can smell or smokable marijuana that you can smell.”
By Skylar Laird, South Carolina Daily Gazette
The official death knell of two bills means South Carolina’s laws on driving under the influence won’t get stricter this year, and sales of THC-infused products continue without limitations.
Legislators left the Statehouse last week with no plans to come back until the next legislative session begins in January. That killed compromises on DUI laws and THC-infused drinks and gummies, which had been in legislative purgatory for nearly two months.
Both bills needed final approval from each chamber to head to the governor’s desk. Compromises worked out by House-Senate panels failed to win approval from the full chambers when legislators briefly returned in June.
A proposal intended to strengthen the state’s DUI laws needed supermajority approval to advance. But the 23-13 vote in the Senate fell short, primarily over angst about the THC bill. On the same day, the full House rejected the compromise limiting sales of intoxicating drinks and edibles infused with hemp-derived THC, the compound in marijuana that gives a high.
“The debates on those have been intertwined,” Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey told reporters June 25. “So, they’ll probably rise or
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