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SOUTH CAROLINA SENATORS FALL SHORT OF SUPERMAJORITY VOTE TO ADVANCE MEDICAL
MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION BILL
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By
Kyle Jaeger
An attempt to advance a South Carolina medical marijuana legalization bill
failed in the Senate on Thursday, despite a majority of members voting in favor
of the special order motion from the Republican majority leader.
The Senate voted 25-16 in favor of the special order motion from Senate Majority
Leader Shane Massey (R) that would have put the S.C. Compassionate Care Act back
in play for the 2024 session. It needed at least 28 votes to meet the two-thirds
supermajority requirement for special orders, however.
This doesn’t mean that the legislation, sponsored by Sen. Tom Davis (R), won’t
be taken up at all this year. But the legislative maneuver from Majority Leader
A. Shane Massey (R) to streamline its consideration at Thursday’s meeting came
up short.
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Senate Medical Affairs Committee Chairman Danny Verdin (R) separately said last
month that he wants a “redo” this session to pass the bill. His panel did
approve the measure last year, but it didn’t advance through the full chamber by
a crossover deadline.
An earlier version of the legislation cleared the full Senate in 2022, only to
stall in the House over a procedural hiccup.
“I’m committed to a medicinal cannabis program that is for the health and
well-being of South Carolinians,” Verdin said last month.
Overall, the bill would allow patients to access cannabis from licensed
dispensaries if they receive a doctor’s recommendation for the treatment of
qualifying conditions.
Here are the main provisions of the proposal:
“Debilitating medical conditions” for which patients could receive a medical
cannabis recommendation include cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy,
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Crohn’s disease, autism, a terminal
illness where the patient is expected to live for less than one year and a
chronic illness where opioids are the standard of care, among others.
The state Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Board of
Pharmacy would be responsible for promulgating rules and licensing cannabis
businesses, including dispensaries that would need to have a pharmacist on-site
at all times of operation.
In an effort to prevent excess market consolidation, the bill has been revised
to include language requiring regulators to set limits on the number of
businesses a person or entity could hold more than five percent interest in, at
the state-level and regionally.
A “Medical Cannabis Advisory Board” would be established, tasked with adding or
removing qualifying conditions for the program. The legislation was revised from
its earlier form to make it so legislative leaders, in addition to the governor,
would be making appointments for the board.
Importantly, the bill omits language prescribing a tax on medical cannabis
sales, unlike the last version. The inclusion of tax provisions resulted in the
House rejecting the earlier bill because of procedural rules in the South
Carolina legislature that require legislation containing tax-related measures to
originate in that body rather than the Senate.
Smoking marijuana and cultivating the plant for personal use would be
prohibited.
Doctors would be able to specify the amount of cannabis that a patient could
purchase in a 14-day window, or they could recommend the default standard of
1,600 milligrams of THC for edibles, 8,200 milligrams for oils for vaporization
and 4,000 milligrams for topics like lotions.
Edibles couldn’t contain more than 10 milligrams of THC per serving.
There would also be packaging and labeling requirements to provide consumers
with warnings about possible health risks. Products couldn’t be packaged in a
way that might appeal to children.
Patients could not use medical marijuana or receive a cannabis card if they work
in public safety, commercial transportation or commercial machinery positions.
That would include law enforcement, pilots and commercial drivers, for example.
Local governments would be able to ban marijuana businesses from operating in
their area, or set rules on policies like the number of cannabis businesses that
may be licensed and hours of operation. DHEC would need to take steps to prevent
over-concentration of such businesses in a given area of the state.
Lawmakers and their immediate family members could not work for, or have a
financial stake in, the marijuana industry until July 2029, unless they recuse
themselves from voting on the reform legislation.
DHEC would be required to produce annual reports on the medical cannabis
program, including information about the number of registered patients, types of
conditions that qualified patients and the products they’re purchasing and an
analysis of how independent businesses are serving patients compared to
vertically integrated companies.
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Meanwhile, a poll released last year found that a strong majority of South
Carolina adults support legalizing marijuana for both medical (76 percent) and
recreational (56 percent) use—a finding that U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has
promoted.
Davis, the sponsor of the South Carolina cannabis reform bill, has said that his
own party’s stance, particularly as it concerns medical marijuana, is “an
intellectually lazy position that doesn’t even try to present medical facts as
they currently exist.”
After Davis’s Senate-passed medical cannabis bill was blocked in the House in
2022, he tried another avenue for the reform proposal, but that similarly failed
on procedural grounds.
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