May 20 - Rally on the Steps!

Time to demand action from our politicians!On May 20th, the subcommittee for house bill S672 will hold it's first...

Posted by SC Medical Marijuana Movement on Thursday, May 7, 2015

Time to demand action from our politicians!

On May 20th, the subcommittee for house bill S672 will hold it's first earing before determining if this bill for the legalization of medical marijuana will move to the house for a vote. We are asking all who are able to join us on the steps of the State House in Columbia, SC to show our support for this bill. The more faces we can attach to this bill, the better.

We will be gathering at 11:30 am on the South steps of the capitol building. Please invite your friends and share this event on your personal facebook pages.

This hearing has been moved to a later date, but we are still holding the rally. We believe it vital to maintain momentum and to continue to raise awareness.

Please share this event with your friends!

https://www.facebook.com/events/879457738764630/

SC Subcommittee to Meet on Medical Marijuana - Contact Your Legislators!

Tomorrow afternoon, a subcommittee of the South Carolina House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee will take testimony on the need for a compassionate medical marijuana program.

If you are a South Carolina resident, please email your representative today to ask him or her to support medical marijuana.

If you are a seriously ill patient with a qualifying medical condition (definition 21), the loved one of a patient, or a medical professional, please also consider testifying in person. Let Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) know if you’re interested: state@mpp.org

The South Carolina Medical Marijuana Program Act, H 4037, would allow patients suffering from a listed condition to use and safely access medical marijuana if recommended by their doctors. This bill is more comprehensive than and addresses the many flaws of the legislation that was passed last year in an attempt to make certain medical marijuana products accessible to a limited class of patients.

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New SC Medical Marijuana Bill (H 4879) is the Real Deal!

South Carolina House Minority Leader, Todd Rutherford (D-Columbia) just filed fairly comprehensive legislation (H 4879) that would legalize medical marijuana in SC for a broad range of medical conditions.

While certainly not all-inclusive, this is an excellent bill that would relieve suffering for innumerable patients in SC.

Unfortunately, most news summaries of the bill so far have been brief and have made the bill seem far more limited in scope than it is in reality.

We urge you to read the bill yourself: H 4879

We then ask that you

• Sign our Petition in Support of SC Medical Marijuana
• Contact your Legislators
• Contact Local Media
• Spread the Word!

Patients all around our state our suffering unnecessarily. We all deserve safe and legal access to good medicine prescribed by our doctors.

Please help us get this bill passed.

Thanks.

ACT NOW! Tell Obama to Remove Marijuana from DEA's Schedules of Drugs

In a profile published this week by The New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama acknowledged the fact that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol for the consumer.

Yet federal law classifies marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, a category the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers “the most dangerous drugs of all the drug schedules.”

It’s time for that to change. The Controlled Substances Act gives the executive branch, led by President Obama, the legal authority to remove marijuana from the DEA’s schedule of drugs.

That authority should be exercised immediately.

ACT NOW >>> PLEASE SIGN THE CHANGE.ORG PETITION calling on President Obama to remove marijuana from the DEA’s schedule of drugs. Then share it widely with your friends and relatives, and encourage them to sign and share it, too. 

FOR MORE INFO:
http://blog.mpp.org/prohibition/petition-to-obama-.....

ACTION ALERT - H 3060 Needs Your Support!

ACTION ALERT - Columbia SC Norml

Please, contact your state representative and express your support for passage of H 3060. Enactment of H 3060 would remove mandatory minimum sentences for certain controlled substances offenses in favor of less punitive penalties and establish a study commission of 5 senators and 5 representatives that would review South Carolina's drug laws.

The representatives listed below are members of the House Judiciary Committee. If your state representative is on this committee, they most certainly need to hear from you. Check www.scstatehouse.gov to find your representative and district.

Write, call, or pay them a visit!!!

Name/Party/District
Delleney, "Greg", Jr., Chairman- R 43
Smith, James E., Jr., 1st V.C.- D 72
Quinn, Rick, 2nd V.C.- R 69
Bannister, Bruce W.- R 24
Bowen, Don C.- R 8
Clemmons, Alan D.- R 107
Cole, J. Derham, Jr.- R 32
Funderburk, Laurie Slade- D 52
Hamilton, Daniel P. "Dan"- R 20
Horne, Jenny Anderson- R 94
Kennedy, Ralph Shealy, Jr.- R 39
McCoy, Peter M., Jr.- R 115
McEachern, Joseph A. "Joe"- D 77
McLeod, Walton J.- D 40
Munnerlyn, Elizabeth R.- D 54
Murphy, Christopher J. "Chris"- R 98
Nanney, Wendy K.- R 22
Newton, Wm. Weston J.- R 120
Pope, Thomas E. "Tommy"- R 47
Rutherford, J. Todd- D 74
Sellers, Bakari T.- D 90
Tallon, Edward R. "Eddie", Sr.- R 33
Thayer, Anne J.- R 9
Weeks, J. David- D 51
Whipper, J. Seth- D 113

Lastly, S 220, South Carolina's medical marijuana bill will be my personal priority. Another member and myself have a meeting this Thursday with state Senator Larry Martin of Pickens, District 2 (Pickens County). He is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who will choose the 5 senators on the drug law study committee should H3060 pass. We need phone calls, emails, and letters to inundate his office, as well as the office of every member of the Medical Affairs committee where S 220 remains idle. The chairman of the Medical Affairs committee is Harvey Peeler of Cherokee, District 14 (Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union & York Counties). The other members of this committee are listed below. Call, email, write, or visit them to express your support and urge them to move this to floor for passage.

Peeler, Harvey S., Jr., Chairman- R 14
Courson, John E.- R 20
Hayes, Robert W., Jr.- R 15
Jackson, Darrell- D 21
Fair, Michael L.- R 6
Hutto, C. Bradley- D 40
Pinckney, Clementa C.- D 45
Verdin, Daniel B. “Danny”, III- R 9
Cleary, Raymond E., III- R 34
Lourie, Joel- D 22
Martin, Shane R.- R 13
Nicholson, Floyd- D 10
Scott, John L., Jr.- D 19
Ford, Robert- D 42
Alexander, Thomas C.- R 1
Bright, Lee- R 12
Davis, Tom- R 46

Wayne Borders,
acting president, Columbia NORML