Two medical hashish payments have been pre-filed within the South Carolina Home for the upcoming 2023 session. Each measures would successfully legalize full-plant medical hashish use within the state which at present solely permits low-THC, CBD merchandise.
The Put Patients First Act, pre-filed by Minority Chief J. Todd Rutherford (D) would permit physicians to authorize sufferers for medical hashish use and set up a system of caregivers. The legislation consists of language to guard sufferers, caregivers, and physicians from prison legal responsibility. The legislation would additionally permit a system of medical hashish dispensaries. The measure was referred to the Home Committee on Medical, Army, Public and Municipal Affairs.
Individually, the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act was pre-filed by Republican Reps. Invoice Herbkersman, Jerry Carter, and Invoice Taylor. The measure would additionally authorize dispensaries – however not caregivers – and would permit entry by sufferers with “debilitating medical situations who’re underneath the care of a doctor,” in response to the abstract of the pre-filed invoice. The proposal would arrange a Medical Hashish Program Fund to supply for this system’s operations. The legislation would additionally create prison penalties to be used of hashish whereas driving. The measure was additionally referred to the chamber’s Committee on Medical, Army, Public and Municipal Affairs.
The state’s 2023 legislative session begins on January 10.
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