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North Carolina bill to legalize medical marijuana picking up support

Astate bill to legalize marijuana for medicinal use is picking up support across the state, including from around Cleveland County.

In April, Senate Bill 711, the North Carolina Compassionate Care Act, was filed. The bill would allow for the use of medicinal marijuana in the state, as well as limited growing of the plant for medicinal use.

It is hardly the first bill to attempt to make marijuana legal in some form or another, but SB 711 does have something previous bills do not — actual support. The bill was introduced by one of the legislature’s most powerful Republicans, Sen. Bill Rabon, and has support from other prominent members of the party.

If passed and signed into law, the bill would make medical marijuana available to patients suffering from a variety of ailments, including cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, ALS, Crohn’s disease and Parkinson’s disease — all of which could see greater relief through cannabis than other pharmaceuticals.

“We always talk about in conservative medicine we are so much better taking things from our own ground that is grown versus something that is a chemically synthesized product or pharmaceutical,” said Dr. Rich Berkowitz, a chiropractic physician in Shelby. [Read more at Greensboro News & Record]

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