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The N.C. Court of Appeals has rejected a drug defendant's argument that hemp legalization in North Carolina should lead judges to throw out his conviction.
Published: Thursday, December 29th, 2022 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hemp stays legal in North Carolina with the passage of S.B. 455, Conform Hemp with Federal Law Wednesday in the Senate.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2022 @ 2:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hemp is cannabis that has less than 0.3% delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 11:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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S.B. 762, the North Carolina Farm Act of 2022 conforms to federal law regarding hemp and takes it off the State Controlled Substances Act.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 9:13 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The clock is ticking on hemp licenses for North Carolina farmers.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2020 @ 5:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As CBD products continue to grow in popularity and use, there is often still confusion when it comes to differentiating hemp and marijuana. Both hemp and marijuana are terms that have been coined to differentiate two varieties of the Cannabis sativa plant species
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2020 @ 4:56 am
By: Old Sparta Inc.
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North Carolina hemp farmers are bracing for an onslaught of federal regulation.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 10:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Justin Hamilton’s company farm last year lost an entire greenhouse of hemp — somewhere between $25,000 and $35,000 — because his crop violated the state’s THC threshold by 0.1%.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 @ 9:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly is one step closer to settling the smokable hemp dispute after months of deliberation.
Published: Thursday, October 31st, 2019 @ 8:46 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawmakers have reached a compromise on smokable hemp, but their agreement may not make everyone in the hemp community happy. For now.
Published: Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 11:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Senate unanimously voted Tuesday, Oct. 1, to reject the House’s version of the 2019 Farm Act, which would ban smokable hemp by May 2020. Now, it’s up to the House and Senate on whether they will appoint conferees to sort out the two chambers’ differences.
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 3:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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You can’t criminalize smokable hemp, a federal judge has told Indiana lawmakers. The decision could affect North Carolina.
Published: Saturday, September 28th, 2019 @ 2:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s farm bill has passed the House, but it now may be frozen in the Senate.
Published: Saturday, August 24th, 2019 @ 4:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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If passed, North Carolina’s hotly contested hemp law will probably end up in court, says the state legislator leading efforts to ban the plant’s smokable flower.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2019 @ 3:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The future of smokable hemp in North Carolina remains unsettled, nearly a month after lawmakers last took it up.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 8:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Workers meander through green rows of plants, glancing sideways as they go and dipping their brimmed caps against the setting sun. A white Chevy pickup stops at the top of the slope, and farmer Shane Whitaker jumps out and walks among the crops.
Published: Monday, August 12th, 2019 @ 4:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Todd Smith was out of town one Saturday when he got an unnerving phone call.
Published: Friday, August 9th, 2019 @ 12:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Fiery arguments over hemp regulation smoldered out Wednesday, July 24, when House members reversed feverish efforts to criminalize the plant’s smokable flower.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 12:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If North Carolina bans smokable hemp, hundreds of farmers will lose money on their crops — and faith in their legislators, says Blake Butler, executive director of the N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission.
Published: Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019 @ 2:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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What is the difference between hemp and marijuana?
Published: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019 @ 11:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Andrew Ross, a Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan, in January was working private security for a cross-country delivery of hemp. Ross’s task was simple: Guard a truckload of state-approved industrial hemp, grown in Kentucky, and bound for Colorado.
Published: Monday, July 1st, 2019 @ 7:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Bill 315, the North Carolina Farm Bill of 2019, passed the Senate June 17 by a 31-14 vote. S.B. 315 officially authorizes and regulates statewide hemp farming, among other things.
Published: Tuesday, June 18th, 2019 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Who does it take for the NC General Assembly to move fast? Apparently lawmakers can act swiftly if they want to legalize hemp, a relative of marijuana, especially when four lobbyists are on the job, and when the son of a political insider stands to benefit.
Published: Friday, October 16th, 2015 @ 3:33 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Thanks to a grassroots uproar, the whole solar subsidies scam got sideswiped and derailed.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2015 @ 12:11 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The N.C. House on July 14 gave final approval to House Bill 766, a bill that would allow more people suffering from "intractable epilepsy" to use a hemp extract to treat the disease.
Published: Thursday, July 16th, 2015 @ 5:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A rare treatment that includes cannabidiol oil from hemp plants to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, which is particularly prevalent in children, will now be available in clinical trials in North Carolina thanks to legislation signed into law today by Governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, July 6th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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