2019 SC Compassionate Care
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The first year of this biennial state legislative session ended on Tuesday. The Senate medical affairs full committee held hearings last month with no movement on S366, the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act. Voting on the bill was postponed until next year when the committee reconvenes and with S366 listed at the top of the calendar. A few committee members had expressed concern they did not feel they had adequate time to read the details of the bill and amendments in order to move the bill this year. The bill will pick up exactly where it left off, giving the members opportunity in the off-season to understand the bill thoroughly. The legislators will be in their home districts, giving patient advocates a local opportunity to meet with them in their home offices or at public events.

May 23, 2019
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Pivotal SC Medical Marijuana Poll
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New data has surfaced from the public opinion polling and political strategy firm located in Atlanta, the Trafalgar Group. According to the survey, only 18.8% are opposed to any form of legalization – medical or otherwise,  and 4% of those feel it is inevitable anyway. The most impactful takeaway is that likely South Carolina voters in 2020 are 51.1% “more likely” to support a legislator voted in favor of a bill to legalize medical marijuana. Of those, 31.5% said they would be “much more likely” to support their senator or house member. Alternately, only 18.4% said they would be “less likely” to support a lawmaker who votes for medical marijuana and only 12.1% said they would be “much less likely.”  

March 6, 2019
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1st Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee Meeting on S366
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The first senate subcommittee meeting discussing the Compassionate Care Act took place in Gressette Building, room 105 at 10:00 am on Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Senator Davis, the subcommittee chairman, articulated in his introduction that he wanted: a tightly-defined medical cannabis bill that empowers physicians to allow patient use of cannabis for specific debilitating conditions when empirical evidence substantiates the benefits. He wants to ensure that the bill is clearly a medical bill in terms of substance as well as optics, and is not a precursor to adult use.

March 1, 2019
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Long-Term Care Facilities and Medical Cannabis
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Caring for a loved one is an inevitable part of life for most people. Consider yourself blessed if you are able to care for an older family member. For families with children who need long-term care, it gets more challenging. In an attempt to improve our own daughter’s life, we simplify her medications and eliminate those with harmful side effects to avoid “polypharmacy[CL1] ,” using multiple drugs to treat a condition. As a special-needs mom, I live with concern about how will my daughter be cared for after her parents have departed this life.

February 22, 2019
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Filed Today: 2019 Compassionate Care Act
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South Carolina State Sen. Tom Davis and Rep. Peter McCoy on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, filied a bill titled the “South Carolina Compassionate Care Act,” in order to legalize in South Carolina the use of cannabis by patients. It would allow patients with certain specific medical conditions, subject to a physician’s authorization and supervision, and to legalize in this state, subject to regulation and oversight by DHEC and SLED, the cultivation, processing and dispensing of cannabis for such medical use. They have released the following statement:

January 15, 2019
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Crossover Date Has Arrived
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There are several key dates during the often-complex process of passing legislation, and today, April 10, is one of them. Known as the “crossover date,” it is the date by which a bill must pass out of the chamber from which it started. If a bill starts in the House, it has pass out of the House by April 10. If a bill started in the Senate, it would need to pass out of the Senate by that same date.

April 10, 2018
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