South Carolina’s long-time hashish advocate Senator, Tom Davis, has launched a contemporary effort to legalize medical hashish within the state.
Final week (January 14), Davis reintroduced the ‘Compassionate Care Act’, or Senate Invoice 53, which might create a licensed framework for cultivating, processing, and shelling out medical hashish merchandise.
Moreover, 15 cultivation centres, 30 processing services, and three pharmacies per county could be licensed, with oversight falling underneath the Division of Public Well being and Board of Pharmacy however native governments retaining the appropriate to limit operations inside their jurisdictions.
Whereas searching for to lastly present medical hashish entry in one of many US most strictest hashish states, the proposals would additionally see very stringent laws imposed on sufferers.
The invoice prohibits house cultivation and smoking hashish, permitting solely vaporization, edibles, tinctures, and topicals.
It might additionally impose exact limits on sufferers stage of consumption, together with 1,600 milligrams THC for edibles and tinctures per 14 days, 8,200 milligrams THC for vaporization oils per 14 days and 4,000 milligrams THC for topicals per 14 days.
“This can be a conservative invoice as a result of that’s what South Carolinians need,” Davis stated. “It requires physician authorization, supervision, and pharmacist shelling out.”
The 2025 invoice excludes any tax provisions, avoiding constitutional hurdles that derailed earlier variations.
It additionally introduces a singular five-year sundown clause: this system would robotically terminate until lawmakers vote to resume it primarily based on a state-conducted survey of sufferers, caregivers, and stakeholders.
