CHARLESTON, S.C. — Escalating her criticism of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace's focus on cannabis reform, Republican Katie Arrington said Friday that her opponent in the 1st Congressional District should not only take a drug test but make the results public, insinuating that Mace may have been "high" while representing South Carolina in Congress.
"While residents of the Lowcountry continue to be crushed by skyrocketing inflation and record high gas prices, Nancy Mace opted to spend 4/20 at a pot conference in Miami rather than with her constituents," Arrington said in a statement issued through her campaign Friday afternoon, citing Mace's attendance at the two-day Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference this week.
Arrington then pointed to a recent Huffington Post article, where Mace was asked whether or not she still used marijuana. According to the news report, Mace "grinned but declined to answer."
