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US (NC): Smokable hemp ban a step closer to reality

Lawmakers said they plan to outlaw smokable hemp next year, a move that could hurt what's become a big seller in North Carolina's booming legal hemp industry.

Senate Bill 315: law enforcement loves it, and industrial hemp backers hate it. Both are clear on their reasons. "Law enforcement has no issue with industrial hemp. We don't even have an issue with the CBD oils. We don't have an issue with the industry," Henderson County Sheriff Lowell Griffin said.

However, Griffin believes state legislators are doing the right thing by banning smokables. "The rest of the industry is going to take a hit, people that have put millions of dollars into family farms that have completely turned over to hemp now," Carolina Hemp Co. co-owner Trent Williams said.

Williams believes it's a rush to judgment on what is simply a different delivery system for therapeutic CBD, singling out the bud and flower, which are also what any cannabis-based product comes from.

Read more at wlos.com

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