Pot Legal in South Carolina?
allen griggs
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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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If we stay in SC I am all in growing it for medical purpose for folks. It will highly regulated and very profitable.
Much more lucrative than tobacco or cotton !
The law has been on tv saying the folks will smoke it up for recreation trying to influence bad press.
With the amount of money it cost the the tax payer's to "just say no", I say Roll Another One !
Sooner or later the law makers will figure out, that it is a CASH crop and how to make sure everyone gets a taste !
Dolts have been missing this source of taxable revenue for 70+ years.
Come on funny feelin'!
It's still illegal, no matter how many states pass laws making it "legal". Read the Constitution; Federal law outranks state law. No one should be subject to a felony charge simply by signing a Form 4473.
Every president for the last 50 years could have called the head of the DEA into his office, & said, "Hey bud, I'd like to move marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2." None of them had the guts to do that.
I've seen too many people with terrible diseases who have been failed by conventional medicine. I wish that they had a choice to try pot.
Neal
Used to grow a couple alotments of Burley baccer years ago. Sold maybe 3,000 pounds a year.
Always said in my life time pot would be legal and baccer would outlawed,. Getting up in years but the baccer/ pot prediction is not too far off.
I have no issue with a doobie for medical reasons
Note, I have never done pot or and other sort of drug and don't plan on it. I am foolish enough without it.
Now folks I have had a kidney stone and a gall bladder attack. Keep the morphine and fentanyl coming please.
Last summer I was driving down Reems Creek Rd, Asheville NC. I spotted this and had to stop to take pics. It looked like 2 acres of sinsemilla! Don't ask how I would know what that looks like.
Right there on the Reems Creek Hwy. Supposedly this is "legal CBD."
Around here, that would have disappeared overnight. Either by thieves or deer.
Back in the 80's a group of hippies started buying farms in the rural West Virginia County next to here. They didnt farm and had no visible means of support. The locals left them alone.
One night in September, two friends of mine were riding the backroads drinking beer. Suddenly, they got a whiff of that skunkish smell. The snuck into a nearby barn and discovered many pot plants hanging to dry. They filled the back of the truck with all they could haul and skedadled.
One of the hippies came by their house the next day, distraught at being wiped out.
Turns out, they had contracted with a local truck driver to haul their crops up North, and not selling any locally.
Soon, it became a game with locals as to who could find the harvests and steal it.
A large indoor building is not needed... But it helps.
Revenue will be greater than Boubon. 😀
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I am only half Kentuckian
https://thegreenfund.com/is-weed-legal-in-kentucky
Much more lucrative than tobacco or cotton !
Grey Poupon with P's instead of B's/
It is LONG past time for the present government to accept what previous government learned in 1933.
Prohibition hurts EVERYONE !
All the "Reefer Madness" fears were false.
A man of simpler tastes, I always preferred Gulden's. ...😉😋
many years ago knew a few people who made moonshine in tennessee ( go figure ) but I remember in the mid 1970's or so a couple of them were involved with there dad who made moon shine for years ( all departed now RIP ) told me they and there dad started growing pot up in the mountains easy to get away with no fires to give away there locations and easy enough to grow , sold it by the trash bags full .
as a teenager I did smoke some and back then I could not understand why not legalize it I felt some day they would , that was 45 years + ago . when they did start making legal as normal and politicians' had to have more money added in all the taxes and and the licenses and restrictions to sell it so the cost was crazy like they forced people to buy it on the street . it should have been dirt cheap to force out the street sales .
to me the big reason its getting more legal same as gambling TAX TAX and more TAX money going to the governments
I can guess prostitution in a few more years will become legal in more places same reason people are going to do it any way might as well make more tax money from it , as I have stated in the past another advantage for ( them ) of cashless society they dont care where you get the money just give them a bigger share of it
Laws on weed are weird, here in CT I can possess 5 ozs but I can't buy it, sell it, or grow it .
I guess we have lots of ditch weed
The "Rebels" did not start the war ............... that is all ................... over.
You got that right.
I did smoke some pot in my mis-spent youth. It was the sixties, what can I say? Now, these days you often hear that the current stuff is much more powerful than what we had at the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1969.
I had a party last year, a buddy of mine came over from Texas and he had some of the "Colorado Legal" pot. We went out on the porch and I had 3 puffs, now I hadn't had any in 30 years, but 3 puffs and I could barely stand up. This new legal stuff is nuclear powered! Five times stronger than the pot of the sixties.
Someone mentioned skunk. That crop that I photographed last year in Reems Creek NC, a mile away you could smell the skunk, when I stopped for a photo the skunk smell was so strong it made me gag.
Jim Deere you said that Reems Creek crop wouldn't have lasted long where you live. I can't believe it lasted here.
This is the field where it was growing right on a busy county highway. Believe me NC hillbillies know what pot looks like. I could not believe that the "locals" had not stolen that crop.
https://www.google.com/maps/@35.6921525,-82.5172985,1147m/data=!3m1!1e3
Around here they have genetically engineered pot to keep the growing fields safe from would be thieves. They also figured out a way to increase production on a lot less acreage.
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cheech and chong could make one hel.... of a cigar from that.......................
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.
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.
https://www.leafly.com/learn/growing/buyers-guide/how-to-buy-marijuana-seeds
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.
I see a Scoobie Doobie right there.
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.
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.
Ha, ha, red eyed for sure.
It is as dead as the dems tonight from the SC senate crying about a state hate crime bill. Dead in the water.
They need to make it legal in all 50 states.. the way this country is headed... nobody needs to be sober...