Source: Bryan Anderson, WRAL, 6/28/22
 

North Carolina lawmakers have little more than 48 hours to get a bill sent to and signed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper to keep hemp farmers in business. If they don’t, the burgeoning industry would become illegal starting Friday. The high-stakes political standoff mounted on Tuesday after a House committee declined to add hemp legalization into a farm bill or consider a request to do so on the chamber floor.

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