In South Carolina, legislation to legalize medical marijuana is under consideration by a key House Committee.
Senate Bill 423 has been assigned to and is being considered by the House Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs, weeks after it was passed by the full Senate in a 26 to 17 vote. Filed by Senator Thomas Davis with a bipartisan coalition of 11 cosponsors, the measure would establish the South Carolina Medical Cannabis Program, creating “a seed-to-sale system to provide for the sale of medical cannabis to treat a qualifying patient’s debilitating medical condition or to alleviate symptoms.”
The law would allow patients to possess an “Allowable amount of medical cannabis” or “allowable amount of cannabis products”, defined as:
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