Source: SACRAMENTO BEE, 10/28/19 (Updated 6:21 p.m.)

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North Carolina's annual agriculture measure is nearing final legislative approval after being delayed for months by a debate over the future of smokable hemp. The Senate voted 40-10 on Monday for a compromise to the 2019 Farm Act. Much of it describes the regulatory framework to expand the industrial and medicinal hemp industry. The House delayed its scheduled Monday vote.

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