Source: David Larson, NORTH STATE JOURNAL, 6/5/19

 Members of North Carolina’s hemp industry believe hemp could be the next cash crop for the state, but concerns from law enforcement are bringing a major part of the industry, smokable products, under scrutiny.   Sen. Brent Jackson (R-Sampson), who co-chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, sees hemp as important enough to the state’s farmers to make it the focus of the 2019 Farm Act. But he told North State Journal it was a difficult task to strike the right balance between the hemp industry and the state’s law enforcement, who are concerned there isn’t a good way to differentiate between “smokable hemp,”which is legal, and marijuana, which is not. 

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