Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 5/30/19

 A proposed ban on smokable hemp has North Carolina farmers worried as the state Senate agriculture committee considers legislationthat would expand industrial hemp farming, which was originally established as a pilot program in 2015. Farmers argued at a hearing Thursday that banning smokable hemp would hurt the lucrative hemp industry at a time where many farmers in the traditional tobacco-farming state are struggling due to hurricanes and decreased tobacco prices.

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