Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 6/20/22


North Carolina farmers who got into the cannabis business in recent years hoped they’d be in a prime position to capitalize on the state’s eventual legalization of marijuana. But those hopes are fading, even with a bill to legalize medicinal marijuana pending in the state’s General Assembly. The number of farmers licensed to grow marijuana’s nonintoxicating cousin, hemp, is now one-quarter of what it was in 2020. The medical marijuana bill, languishing in the House after clearing the state Senate...

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