South Carolina lawmakers are once again introducing legislation to legalize marijuana for treatment of critically ill patients in the state, making another go at a debate that has gradually made progress in this deeply red state in recent years. Sen. ...

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A panel of South Carolina legislators voted Thursday to advance a resolution urging Congress to open more research on medical uses for marijuana, taking another step toward loosening some of the state’s attitudes toward the drug. The measure implores federal lawmakers to ...

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A defense lawyer says two people who have been arrested are victims because they had no idea a package delivered to their home in South Carolina had more than 2,000 grams of marijuana inside. Defense Attorney J. Stephen Grooms tells ...

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A South Carolina woman recently made the argument that she should not be arrested for DUI and possession of marijuana after she drove through a stop sign at 60 miles per hour. She argued she shouldn’t be arrested because she ...

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Despite efforts by the South Carolina Department of Corrections to keep contraband, including marijuana, out of its prisons, a weed compound may one day be welcomed to waltz in through the front gate. As the department has installed golf-course-style netting ...

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    A former chief justice’s ruling in a post-conviction relief case involving a convicted drug dealer has given the state Supreme Court the opportunity to revisit and expand on a decision that it reached 21 years ago.   The ...

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A Berkeley County drug conviction was overturned when the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that an immigrant’s lawyer failed to properly advise him that pleading guilty meant he would be deported. The court’s opinion overturned Jamaican citizen Gregg Taylor’s marijuana ...

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A divided panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found on June 1 that a district judge erroneously allowed the introduction of a defendant’s prior drug convictions, irreparably tainting a drugs-and-guns case. Prosecutors failed to prove that ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina state Rep. Peter McCoy is a former prosecutor who has handled dozens of drug cases. But seeing his daughter in pain is a reason he is working to have South Carolina legalize medical marijuana. ...

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An 80-year-old man who ran a sprawling marijuana-dealing operation that covered several states, with records going back to 1992, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Marshall Dion pleaded guilty last year to drug and money-laundering charges, and his ...

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