Police in North Carolina say they’ve seized about 200 pot-laced pieces of candy. Greenville police said the candy was likely intended to be sold at college parties and not handed out to children. The Greenville Daily Reflector reported Thursday that ...

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By MELISSA AZALLION The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently issued policy guidance in its policy manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including marijuana use, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization ...

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A new law expands the number of growers who can participate in South Carolina’s hemp program, as well as the acreage they can farm. The program, administered by the S.C. Department of Agriculture, previously allowed for 40 permits for up ...

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  Some migraine sufferers have turned to medical marijuana as a way to treat headaches, but a medical marijuana bill that’s currently working its way through the South Carolina legislature could potentially cause headaches of its own for employers in ...

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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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