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1US SC: Child Who Inspired Cannabidiol Law Receives First DosesFri, 10 Oct 2014
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:McNab, Matt Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:10/11/2014

It took only a simple phrase to see how Mary Louise Swing's life would improve from cannabidiol.

On vacation with family in Myrtle Beach last weekend, Mary Louise stunned her mother, Jill, and a roomful of relatives with a simple "Hi everybody" as she got out of bed.

For 6-year-old Mary Louise, who suffers from intractable epilepsy, it was a small, uplifting first step.

"She just doesn't say that," Jill Swing said. "It's been delightful. She was nonverbal, but she's saying more words now. She's a chatterbox."

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2US SC: Superintendent Candidate Calls For Legalizing Marijuana ToSat, 03 May 2014
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Cope, Cassie Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:05/05/2014

South Carolina superintendent of education candidate Sheila Gallagher called for legalizing marijuana when she addressed Democrats at the South Carolina Democratic Party convention in Columbia on Saturday afternoon.

Gallagher, of Florence, said legalizing marijuana should be put to a vote and the revenue that would be gained could go toward investing in the state's education system.

"It isn't about getting high," Gallagher said.

The revenue that could be obtained from legalizing marijuana could be used to invest millions of dollars into the education system until S.C. has the best schools in the nation, she said.

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3US NC: Column: Enforcement of Marijuana Laws Costs Far More Than Drug ItselfMon, 09 Jul 2007
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Parker, Kathleen Area:North Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:07/10/2007

News that Al Gore's 24-year-old son, Al Gore III, was busted for pot and assorted prescription pills has unleashed a torrent of mirth in certain quarters.

Gore-phobes on the Internet apparently view the son's arrest and incarceration as comeuppance for the father's shortcomings. Especially rich was the fact that young Al was driving a Toyota Prius when he was pulled over for going 100 mph -- just as Papa Gore was set to preside over concerts during a 24-hour, seven-continent Live Earth celebration to raise awareness about global warming.

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4US SC: Pharmacists Prepare To Move Drug Behind CounterSat, 15 Apr 2006
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Yount, Lori Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:04/21/2006

New regulations aimed at curbing production of methamphetamine For allergy and cold sufferers this spring, finding relief in a popular nasal decongestant might not be as easy as heading down an aisle at the local pharmacy, as the television ad for Sudafed suggests.

With new federal guidelines that took effect last week and a bill restricting the sales of pseudoephedrine, the active ingredient in Sudafed, on its way through the state legislature, local pharmacies are stocking this over-the-counter drug behind their counters. They also are limiting the amount one person can purchase -- if they hadn't already. The regulations are all in an effort to reduce and deter the production of methamphetamine, a highly addictive stimulant drug concocted with relatively inexpensive household items that has plagued communities in the Midwest and worked its way into the Upstate of South Carolina.

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5US: FDA Rejects Marijuana for Medical UsesFri, 21 Apr 2006
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Kesten, Lou Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:04/21/2006

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it does not support the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

The FDA said in a statement that it and other agencies with the Health and Human Services Department had "concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States, and no animal or human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical use."

A number of states have passed legislation allowing marijuana use for medical purposes, but the FDA said, "These measures are inconsistent with efforts to ensure that medications undergo the rigorous scientific scrutiny of the FDA approval process and are proven safe and effective."

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6US SC: Police Inquiry DeepensFri, 23 Sep 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Crites, Ben Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:09/23/2005

More Drug Cases Getting Reviewed

The Beaufort County solicitor investigating whether Bluffton police officers interfered in a Sheriff's Office drug investigation broadened his inquiry this week.

Deputy Solicitor Duffie Stone said Thursday he is examining Bluffton Police Department practices on every active narcotics case, a process he said could wrap up as soon as the middle of next week.

Stone requested the case files from interim Chief Alex Ferguson on Wednesday and received them Thursday. He did not know the exact number of cases he will be reviewing.

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7US SC: Ridgeland Police Benefit From BustSun, 12 Jun 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Jeffcoat, Wendy Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:06/14/2005

RIDGELAND -- The Ridgeland Police Department is more than $500,000 richer.

The department on Friday received its share of nearly $640,000 seized during a traffic stop on Interstate 95 in 2004. A check for $511,635 was handed over by agents from the U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration. The $640,000 went to the government after Paul Andres Marin, 31, of Miami was pulled over by a Ridgeland police officer on Sept. 22, 2004, for speeding. Marin later pleaded guilty to money laundering, authorities said.

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8US SC: Methadone Clinic Gets State PermitWed, 08 Jun 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Flathmann, Jessica Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:06/08/2005

Company Still Must Clear Hurdles Before It Can Open In Jasper County

BY JESSICA FLATHMANN, The Island Packet Published Wednesday, June 8th, 2005 Recovering drug addicts throughout the Lowcountry should have better access to treatment this summer.

The state gave official permission for a methadone clinic to prepare to open off of S.C. 170 in Jasper County. But before the clinic can begin operating, it needs federal approval to distribute methadone and state confirmation that it's staffed and set up properly.

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9US SC: New Drug Lab Opens On USCB CampusFri, 20 May 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Loller, Travis Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:05/20/2005

Sheriff's Office, School Team Up To Create Facility

BLUFFTON -- In Sgt. Renita Berry's old laboratory, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office chemist could stand in the middle of the room and touch every piece of equipment.

Looking around her spacious new laboratory Thursday in the University of South Carolina Beaufort's south campus Science and Technology building, she said, "Here, there's more room to grow, to do your job."

Berry's job is to analyze suspected illegal drugs. That's an important task because to take someone found with drugs to court, it's not enough for an officer to identify the drugs by sight.

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10 US SC: Drug Program In PerilSat, 07 May 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Haglund, Noah Area:South Carolina Lines:153 Added:05/09/2005

System Earns Praise, Weighs Fundraising

On a recent Monday at the Beaufort County Courthouse, assistant solicitor Christine Grefe sat in for the judge during county Drug Court, an alternative-sentencing program for defendants addicted to drugs or alcohol.

The prosecutor listened as two counselors gave progress reports on each participant.

"Doing well ... really knows how to present himself in interviews ... but still has to stay in a halfway house" was the update on one man. Another had "acclimated well" in a halfway house and recently landed a job at a Hilton Head Island restaurant.

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11 US SC: PUB LTE: Drug War Major FlopWed, 27 Apr 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Taylor, F. Area:South Carolina Lines:39 Added:04/28/2005

To The Packet:

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Colombia, South America, this week to support continued U.S.-Colombian cooperation in the war on drugs. However, there's a major catch: the drug war in Colombia is a certified flop.

Last year a record number of acres of coca, the raw material for cocaine, were sprayed with herbicide. Despite the millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars that went into supporting this policy, Colombia ended the year with slightly more coca than it had in 2003 -- and almost the exact amount that it had in 2000, when the policy began. U.S. policy also has failed to reach human rights goals; the U.N. found that in 2004, as in 2003, human rights violations (rape, torture and death) by the Colombian military are on the rise.

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12US SC: Decision Expected On Location Of ClinicFri, 15 Apr 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Flathmann, Jessica Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:04/15/2005

Recovering drug addicts using methadone could get their treatment in Okatie starting this summer.

That's because the legal battle over whether a methadone clinic should be located in Okatie, greater Bluffton or both should be coming to an end, said Jimmy Long, a Columbia lawyer representing a Pennsylvania-based group that wants to put a clinic in greater Bluffton.

Judge John Geathers, with the Administrative Law Court, said last month he would issue a ruling allowing the state to consider applications for clinics in both areas separately instead of in competition with each other.

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13US SC: Editorial: New Tactics Make Sense For Criminal JusticeWed, 23 Mar 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC)          Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:03/23/2005

Priority Set On Closing Cases, Repeat Offenders

Beaufort County citizens won in the court of common sense last week, thanks to innovative work by the solicitor's office.

Beaufort County General Sessions Court dedicated a full court term to drug cases -- a first for the court.

And the solicitor's office set a priority of dealing with career criminals first.

That results in a more realistic chance for defendants to get the swift and fair justice Americans expect. And it ultimately could result in safer streets and neighborhoods.

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14US SC: Police Sniff Out Bluffton HighSat, 19 Mar 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Knich, Diane Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:03/21/2005

BLUFFTON -- An unannounced search Friday didn't uncover any drugs inside Bluffton High School, but police dogs detected remnants of marijuana in a student's car in the parking lot, Principal Aretha Rhone-Bush said.

The drug search was conducted by the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office's K-9 Unit and the Bluffton Police Department, and it was the first in what Rhone-Bush said will be ongoing random inspections at the school.

The searches are part of the principal's overall plan to eliminate illegal activity from the school and increase security measures.

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15US SC: Officer To Host Drug Awareness SeminarSat, 19 Mar 2005
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Passante, Robyn Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:03/21/2005

BLUFFTON -- Part of Lt. Thomas Loving's job as the Bluffton High School resource officer is to find ways to get a thousand different teens to be straight with him about drugs, alcohol, gangs and violence in the school.

"In my job, you have to find what makes a kid click," said Loving, a Bluffton police officer who has been the 1,084-student school's resource officer since it opened in August.

Loving knows his job would be easier if each student's parent was trying just as hard to do the same thing. So he has helped organize a two-part drug awareness seminar for parents, guardians and other community members on Tuesday and April 7 at the school.

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16US SC: Two Methadone Clinics Proposed For LowcountrySun, 20 Jun 2004
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Flathmann, Jessica Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:06/21/2004

To comment Comments on either application can be made to: S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, Division of Planning and Certificate of Need, Attn: Albert Whiteside, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, SC 29910.

Daily trips to Charleston or Savannah could end soon for recovering drug abusers taking methadone to break the habit. Two methadone clinics have been proposed for Beaufort and Jasper counties, state officials say.

Methadone is a drug given to recovering opiate addicts to break their dependency on substances such as heroin, morphine, OxyContin and other opioid drugs.

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17US SC: More Youths Charged In CrimesSat, 28 Feb 2004
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Haglund, Noah Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:02/28/2004

More youths in Beaufort County were charged with violent or serious offenses during the 2002-03 fiscal year than the year before, according to statistics from the state Department of Juvenile Justice.

The figures did not show a similar rise in the overall caseload.

The numbers, however, do not match those kept by the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office or Solicitor's Office. Local officials said the numbers greatly underrepresented the volume of juvenile cases they dealt with last year.

Statistics released earlier this year by the Department of Juvenile Justice show 583 cases for the 2002-03 fiscal year, which ended in June. But Sheriff's Offices officials said the actual number of cases was 1,197 in 2003, a number that includes youths sent to diversion programs. Officials from the Solicitor's Office agreed with the Sheriff's Office number for the January through December period.

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18US SC: Task Force Files Hundreds Of Drug ChargesTue, 03 Feb 2004
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:Maffei, Glenn Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:02/04/2004

The Beaufort County Multi-Jurisdictional Drug Task Force continues to make undercover controlled drug buys and take dealers and users off the street one at a time, but it is a perhaps never-ending effort, said Sheriff P.J. Tanner. The Sheriff's Office on Monday released its year-end report of the task force's activity for 2003, showing hundreds of charges. But Tanner says their work has just begun.

The numbers tell "only part of the story," Tanner said. They only show where the task force met success in fighting drugs in Beaufort County, but cannot tell the tale of thriving drug businesses that operate under the radar of police.

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19US SC: Editorial: State Prison Policy Needs More FlexibilityThu, 08 Jan 2004
Source:Island Packet (SC)          Area:South Carolina Lines:Excerpt Added:01/15/2004

South Carolina Cannot Afford to 'Throw Away the Key'

The South Carolina legislature must listen to the prison system leader who says more alternatives to jail time are needed for nonviolent offenders. Jon Ozmint, director of the S.C. Department of Corrections, says the prison system also needs greater flexibility on cutting sentences for good behavior.

A look at the cold facts shows why change is needed. The bottom line is that the state cannot afford all the measures approved by legislators who in recent years felt they must be considered "tough on crime" to get elected. The result is a system that is tough on crime, but also tough on common sense. It has taken years of state budget shortfalls to make the problem obvious.

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20 US SC: PUB LTE: Citizens Need Free VoicesTue, 30 Dec 2003
Source:Island Packet (SC) Author:King, John Area:South Carolina Lines:44 Added:12/31/2003

To The Packet: At Stratford High School near Charleston, 14 police officers, several with guns drawn, rushed into the school early in the morning of Nov. 5. They told students in the halls to lie on the floor while they put plastic restraints on some and dumped out their backpacks. No drugs were found. The paramilitary-style raid has the community angry and distrustful.

In Miami, for three days in November, 2,500 police in full riot gear beat peaceful demonstrators with wooden clubs, shot them with rubber bullets, shocked them with Tasers and pepper-sprayed their faces. The protesters, mainly seniors and union workers, were objecting to the Free Trade Area of the Americas they believe will hurt U.S. workers. Miami's mayor called the police actions "a model for homeland security."

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