Pot Legal in South Carolina?
The buckle of the Bible Belt. The deepest of the deep South. The Rebels who started the Civil War!
COLUMBIA, SC (WACH) — After hours of debate in the state senate over medical marijuana, no vote was made, but state lawmakers unanimously agreed to battle it out until there is one.
This was the first time the bill was heard on the Senate floor, after Senator Tom Davis first introduced it seven years ago.
"This is all about getting 45 people to look at this thing and try and figure out a safe way to help people like Margaret Richardson, and that's all I want to do -- to put something legal and safe in their hands if a doctor thinks they need it. Let's not be the 50th state to do this. We're better than that," said Davis.
Davis explained on Wednesday that this will be the most conservative medical marijuana plan in the country.
The bill would create a regulated medical cannabis program to allow people with medical conditions to safely access it when it’s recommended by a doctor.
"There is overwhelming medical evidence that cannabis can me medicinal benefit in ways in some instances that pharmaceuticals cannot, and there have not been a parade of horrible societal consequences that I've heard some out in the lobby say will happen."
While Davis addressed the senate, several groups including SLED, the South Carolina Republican Party and Palmetto Family Council, and the South Carolina Sheriff’s Association gathered in front of the State House explaining why they oppose the plan.
"Our number one job as lawmakers is to protect the people that send us here, it's to look out for them to care for them, be on their side and we're about to consider a bill where we would say to them, 'This is medicine, it's safe and it is good for you, and that is a lie," South Carolina Senator Greg Hembree.
One woman shared a personal experience, "My family's trajectory has been altered forever because of smoking pot. It is not your momma's pot. It is not an innocent, benign substance -- it is something that cannot go unregulated. It is something that needs to have controls."
The group also stated the legalization of medical marijuana will lead to an increase in recreational use and give children easy access to the drug -- something Davis explained is not the goal.
Right now, there are 36 states with a medical cannabis program.
The Senate is expected to reconvene tomorrow at 11 a.m.
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The pot that is grown like Griggs posted is not the smoking kind I am pretty sure.
The stuff that is being legally(note legally) grown around here is tested often by the the pot sheriffs to make sure that it has little to no THC content.
Someone school me, how do you accqire pot if you can't by it, sell it, or grow it? Gift?
Back when I fumbled around deer hunting in the woods at the beginning of fall I would often stumble up on harvested patches about 20 by 50 feet, stalk cut offs would be as much a 1 1/2 thick.
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I asked around about that 2 acre crop I photographed, and it supposedly is CBD and won't get you stoned. The cops come out and test it to make sure it is low THC. Sure looks, and smells like the real thing.
There are a dozen CBD stores in the Asheville area, maybe 2 dozen, all opened in the past 2 years. Pot is NOT legal in NC.
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Anyone here from Kansas? Daughter lived in Cloud Couty- went out to visit. Area just outside her back fence was solid w/ Cannabis. Daughter explained that was what local folks called "Ditch Weed". During WW2 farmers had raised hemp for rope manufacturers- plants growing there today have nearly 0% THC. You could smoke a haybale of it, get nothing but a bad cough.
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chme: 30533297320987/comments/30533351831707
Anyone here from Kansas? Daughter lived in Cloud Couty- went out to visit. Area just outside her back fence was solid w/ Cannabis. Daughter explained that was what local folks called "Ditch Weed". During WW2 farmers had raised hemp for rope manufacturers- plants growing there today have nearly 0% THC. You could smoke a haybale of it, get nothing but a bad cough.
Iowa is full of it also. A noxious weed that'll take over if not controlled.
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I see a Scoobie Doobie right there.
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We used to have a lot of it growing wild; leftover stuff from WW2 when it was raised for rope or something. In about 1975 a deputy sheriff stopped in and sprayed it all with paraquat and it never came back.
I don't drink but have nothing against those who do, and I don't smoke anything but it is OK by me if someone wants to. As long as they are not my kids or grandkids.
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Butchdog2: 30533297320987/comments/30533352549147
I see a Scoobie Doobie right there.
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Vote on the bill next week in the Senate. If it passes on to the House to a subcommittee where it will be reviewed.. and most likely die.
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Ha, ha, red eyed for sure.
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It is as dead as the dems tonight from the SC senate crying about a state hate crime bill. Dead in the water.
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They need to make it legal in all 50 states.. the way this country is headed... nobody needs to be sober...
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