October 2025

This photo was taken
72 hours before
we were raided.

We built the wall behind us to honor the long, complicated story of cannabis. We did not expect to become part of it.

THC Shop museum wall 72 hours before the raid

Seneca, SC warehouse  ·  October 2025

72hrs
Before the raid this photo was taken
~50
Days on ankle monitors
Day 1
Judge dismissed the case at first hearing
Still here
Building the right way
The wall we built
THC Museum wall in warehouse
The THC Museum

A wall tracing the entire history of this plant.

Officers from several agencies walked past these panels and into our warehouse. Sometimes I wonder what they were thinking as they walked by stories about the war on drugs, knowing they were about to repeat parts of it.

We built this museum inside our office to show where we fit into a much longer story. Then, a few weeks later, we unexpectedly became part of it.

“Until cannabis is fully legal and clearly regulated, this cycle continues.”

The story on the wall
Ancient medicine. Prohibition.
Arrests. Reform. Hope.

Here is the story we were trying to tell back in October 2025.

Museum wall panel 1 Museum wall panel 2 Museum wall panel 3 Museum wall panel 4 Museum wall panel 5 Museum wall panel 6
Museum wall panel 7
Museum wall panel 8
Then it happened
October 2025

Three days later,
the story added
an unsuspecting
new chapter. Ours.

Last October, our warehouse was raided by local law enforcement. All of our inventory was seized.

We were detained, charged with potential life sentences, and placed on ankle monitors for roughly 50 days. Operations stopped overnight.

Two weeks later, the national hemp ban was announced. By then, our business was already shut down.

At the preliminary hearing, the very first judge to review the case dismissed it immediately. The case did not hold. But the perspective it gave us, did.

What happened to us was not random. The ground beneath hemp was already shifting nationwide. The raid came first. The ban followed.

What it meant
THC Shop team still standing Still standing · 2025
The bigger picture

Yes, it scared the hell out of us.
But yes, we are still here.

What happened to us shows how fast things can change. One day you are building a museum about the history of cannabis. The next day you are becoming part of it.

The national hemp ban is already in motion. The next chapter is being written right now. And we intend to be on the right side of it.

Until cannabis is fully legal and clearly regulated, this cycle continues. That is why we are still here. That is why we keep building.

The timeline
Ancient
Cannabis as medicine
Used across civilizations for thousands of years. Documented in Chinese, Egyptian, and Indian medicine. Not a new story.
1930s
Prohibition begins
The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 effectively criminalized cannabis across America. The war on the plant began.
1970s
The war on drugs
Nixon declared drugs public enemy number one. Millions of arrests followed. Communities were destroyed. The plant was the excuse.
1996
California Prop 215
The first medical cannabis law in the United States. The first real crack in the wall. The first domino to fall.
2018
The Farm Bill
Hemp federally legalized. THCa products become legal nationwide. The door opens. We walk through it.
2023
THC Shop founded
Started in a 500 sq ft apartment in Seneca, SC. One person, a small check from a grandmother, and a belief that people deserve better access.
Oct 2025
The raid
Our warehouse raided. Inventory seized. Ankle monitors. Life sentence charges. The museum on the wall watched it happen.
2026
Case dismissed. Still here.
Judge dismissed the case at the first hearing. We rebuilt. New meaning. New chapter. Same mission. The story is not over.

The story is still
being written.

The national hemp ban is in motion. What happened to us shows how fast things can change. There is still time to act.