South Carolina Senate Approves Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill

The South Carolina state Senate this week approved a bill to legalize medical marijuana in an initial vote on the measure.

The legislation, known as the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act, was approved by a vote of 26-17 on Tuesday, more than a year after the bill was introduced by Republican Sen. Tom Davis. The bill needs one more affirmative vote for final passage in the Senate before heading to the state House of Representatives for consideration.

The South Carolina Senate passed a similar bill to legalize medical marijuana in 2022 but the measure failed to gain approval in the House due to a procedural issue. This legislative session’s version of the bill came up short in a vote to bring it to the Senate floor last year, but a vote last week gave it new life for the 2024 legislative session, cannabis news outlet Marijuana Moment reported on Tuesday.

Davis, the sponsor of the legislation, has been working to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina since 2014 when he introduced the state’s first bill to legalize the medicinal use of cannabis. During the Senate debate on the bill that began last week, Davis said that he has been working to “come up with the most conservative medical cannabis bill in the country that empowered doctors to help patients—but at the same time tied itself to science, to addressing conditions for which there’s empirically based data saying that cannabis can be of medical benefit.”

By A.J. Herrington, Contributor to Forbes

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