Lawmakers in South Carolina are planning a bipartisan push to legalize medical marijuana this year in the conservative Southern state, one of the few remaining places in America where MMJ is still illegal.
To date, 37 states allow sick people access to cannabis in some form, with varying degrees of ease, including such Southern states as Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Though South Carolina legalized CBD oil in 2014 – a few years before the 2018 federal Farm Bill made the nonintoxicating cannabinoid available in all 50 states – several recent efforts to make the state the 38th with medical access to THC products have failed, most recently in May 2022.
But last month, according to Mount Pleasant TV station WPDE, two competing proposals to legalize medical cannabis in South Carolina were pre-filed ahead of the state Legislature’s first session, scheduled for Jan. 10.
Both measures propose
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