{"id":128807,"date":"2024-05-02T09:06:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128807"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T22:11:47","slug":"local-paper-south-carolina-house-snuffs-out-medical-marijuana-again-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128807","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina House snuffs out medical marijuana again. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its opponents have been vocal, with many arguing the bill creates a likely pipeline to a recreational marijuana program in the Palmetto State. <\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement turned out to staunchly oppose the bill, as they have done in the past, at an earlier meeting of the ad hoc committee April 23. The most vocal opponent was SLED Chief Mark Keel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill does not follow that tradition of the medical model, which is why, in my opinion, it is not about medicine. This bill is about legalizing marijuana in South Carolina,\u201d Keel said. \u201cOnce we go down that road, we\u2019re not going to be able to claw it back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Greenville County sheriff and chiefs of police from Myrtle Beach, West Columbia and Chapin echoed his concerns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/south-carolina-medical-marijuana-cannabis-house\/article_ccce8f0c-073f-11ef-8ff4-936d8e361cd9.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">South Carolina House snuffs out medical marijuana again. Now what? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5URTfLcyXr\">https:\/\/t.co\/5URTfLcyXr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1785611492403851510?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its opponents have been vocal, with many arguing the bill creates a likely pipeline to a recreational marijuana program in the Palmetto State. Law enforcement turned out to staunchly oppose the bill, as they have done in the past, at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128807\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,99,104,578,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-policefire","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128807"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128810,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128807\/revisions\/128810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}