York County, SC HOME BASE
South Carolina still has no recreational or comprehensive medical marijuana program. The Compassionate Care Act (S.53) stalled again this session without a hearing, and the state's only marijuana carve-out remains Julian's Law, a narrow CBD-oil allowance for severe epilepsy.
Hemp is where the action is. Federally legal hemp products must test at or below 0.3% delta-9 THC, but South Carolina's Attorney General has long held that delta-8 and other THC isomers are not protected under the state Hemp Farming Act, and a December 2025 state grand jury operation targeted intoxicating hemp products statewide. H.3924, the bill that would have finally regulated hemp-derived ingestibles, died in the House in June 2026 - so there is still no state framework.
York County drew its own hard line in August 2022: the county Drug Enforcement Unit declared delta-8 and delta-10 products illegal and put merchants on notice to clear their shelves. That local ban still stands - and it is why you will not find delta-8 or delta-10 at SafeHaven. What we carry lives on the right side of that line.
Kratom is legal for adults in South Carolina and regulated under the 2025 Kratom Consumer Protection Act (Act 35), which sets labeling and age-access rules. Bills to ban it were filed in 2026 but did not pass.
On mushrooms: amanita muscaria is not a controlled substance in South Carolina, while psilocybin is strictly Schedule I. The mushroom edibles you will see on legal shelves are amanita or functional varieties - never psilocybin.
Watching: the new federal hemp definition (0.3% total THC including THCA, plus a 0.4 mg per-container cap) takes effect November 12, 2026 unless Congress amends it - and hemp and kratom bills are both expected back when the 2027 SC session opens.
