Source: Charles Duncan, NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/7/20


North Carolina’s top law enforcement officials and prosecutors want the General Assembly to ban “smokable hemp,” a plant very similar to marijuana but with almost none of the chemical that causes users to feel high. In a joint letter, the state associations of sheriffs, police chiefs and district attorneys, and the State Bureau of Investigation, asked lawmakers to pass provisions in the North Carolina Farm Act that would make it illegal to have smokable hemp unless you’re a licensed farmer producing the plant for CBD products.

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