Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/17/19

 A wide-ranging bill to regulate North Carolina's growing hemp industry, which also allows more shooting ranges on farms and has hog farm language that environmentalists don't trust, cleared the state Senate Monday night. Senate Bill 315 survived several attempts by Democrats to water it down and one Democrat's attempt to add a ban to the bill on building new poultry farms in flood-prone areas. 

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