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Statewide S.C. Vape Shop Sting
“Coordinated enforcement operations” take aim at synthetic cannabinoids, other illegal intoxicants…
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Smoke shops – just the latest version of the “video poker blight” designed to separate stupid people from their money. However, unlike video poker, the crap in vapes can kill you. Like video poker, these largely unregulated shebeens need to be regulated out of business.
“Law and order” Alan Wilson going after vape shops while sucking up to the guy who pardoned the Honduran president who brought 400 tons of cocaine into the US. Way to go, big guy.
You are absolutely correct! Alan Wilson is cherry picking low hanging fruit! Bless his heart!
The 2018 farm bill prevents them from doing more than performative little raids like this because the states are pre empted from action because it would violate the commerce clause. Notice they didnt come near Charleston County. Mark Keel has done his best for 30 years and he CANT STOP SHIT because he is on the wrong side of the law. He is the Maurice Bessinger of law enforcement. Somebody get that guy a white suit and a horse!
“Alan Wilson going after vape shops while sucking up to the guy who pardoned the Honduran president who brought 400 tons of cocaine into the US.”
Capitalism protects capital, it protects the owner class. Not much different than the Sackler family never facing jail time even though untold numbers of their victims lose their livelihoods if not their lives every year.
We’ll never know how many times the United States government colluded with the very entities that manufacture and distribute drugs, inside America or out, but we very well know for a fact that the number isn’t zero.
I can remember when we had cigarette machines in the student break areas of my large, Midlands area public high school. My kids can barely believe it when I tell them. But it would appear that did less harm than the voodoo level shit the youth are putting into their lungs with this vape stuff from China and Vietnam that has who-knows- what laced into it. If you got a vaping kid who just can’t get off of a stimulant, just let them to smoke old fashioned american cigarettes instead of vaping. Disgusting habit? Sure. But they’ll never make them go crazy and kill people.
It’s remarkable watching this unfold, because it highlights something many South Carolinians have been quietly warning about for years:
When mislabeled or deceptively marketed “legal” products slip through the cracks, regular families pay the price — not just in criminal cases, but in civil and family courts, too.
I say this as someone who followed every instruction on a product marketed as legal, safe, and compliant under state law… and the result was devastating. It triggered a chain reaction in the legal system that should never have been possible — including emergency hearings based on unreliable or non-validated toxicology results, evidence presented without proper scientific oversight, and life-altering decisions made before the facts were understood.
So while this statewide sting may feel sudden, it actually reflects a much bigger, long-ignored problem:
South Carolina has no coherent, enforceable framework for ensuring the accuracy, validity, or safety of many substances that are being sold to the public and then used — sometimes wrongly — as evidence in court.
And when you combine mislabeled products, unregulated toxicology practices, and inconsistent judicial safeguards, the outcome isn’t just public health risk.
It’s families being torn apart, reputations destroyed, and rights stripped without due process.
The enforcement actions happening now underline what many of us have been trying to report for years:
The system wasn’t prepared, wasn’t equipped, and wasn’t listening.
And people have already been harmed long before these raids ever took place.
I hope this moment finally sparks a broader conversation about consumer protection, forensic reliability, and the real-world consequences of letting regulatory gaps linger unchecked. Lives have already been impacted — far beyond the walls of any vape shop.
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