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RALEIGH — The turmoil surrounding COVID-19 derailed much of the work the General Assembly had done before the pandemic. Battles over redistricting reform, tax relief, teacher pay, and hemp legislation disappeared from the headlines.

RALEIGH — The clock is ticking on hemp licenses for North Carolina farmers.

RALEIGH — The General Assembly is one step closer to settling the smokable hemp dispute after months of deliberation.

RALEIGH — Smokable hemp continues to stall lawmakers trying to pass the farm bill.

RALEIGH — North Carolina’s farm bill has passed the House, but it now may be frozen in the Senate. 

RALEIGH — The future of smokable hemp in North Carolina remains unsettled, nearly a month after lawmakers last took it up.

RALEIGH — Fiery arguments over hemp regulation smoldered out Wednesday, July 24, when House members reversed feverish efforts to criminalize the plant’s smokable flower. 

RALEIGH — 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.

RALEIGH — North Carolina lawmakers want farmers to grow more hemp.