South Carolina Senate To Hear Medical Marijuana Debate

Is there a “Law Enforcement Lobby” somewhere that pulls all of the strings in the South Carolina Legislature?
You have a few liberal, mostly larger city police chiefs, Sheriff’s or SLED functionaries who say they don’t want citizens having their Second Amendment rights somewhat restored. They whine that it will make their jobs more difficult and dangerous if we have permitless carry, kinda like they whined about how much more difficult and dangerous their jobs would be if we had open carry. The result is Senators like Luke Rankin boasting that they stand, not with the citizenry, but with the police and their whining. Open Carry passed and in two-plus years since it took effect, I have only observed four citizens open carrying out in public. None caused panics or reason for police to be in fear for their lives as predicted.

The above-mentioned corners of Law Enforcement have also whined and pushed back hard whenever loosening of marijuana laws, even for medical purposes for people who reportedly would receive great benefit from this plant and its derivatives, is discussed. Look at the travesty SLED, DNR, and local agencies visited on a legitimate hemp farmer, trying to comply with existing law, when that farmer was growing a very low THC version of hemp for industrial purposes. It is as though they fear that a big part of their reason for existing for many decades, “drug control”, will be taken from them.

Most of my life, I have heard police say that they don’t make the law, they just enforce it. For a decade or so lately, they seem heavily involved in making the law, too. This is a disturbing trend.