ASHEVILLE — With a key deadline less than a week away, sellers of hemp and hemp-derived cannabidiol, or CBD, are growing increasingly restless that the North Carolina General Assembly hasn’t acted to remove the plant from the state’s controlled substance list.
“Our frustration continues as the General Assembly cannot get this simple legislative fix done without using the hemp industry as a political football,” said Blake Butler, an Asheville resident and executive director of the Southeast Hemp Association, which represents industry interests in seven states.
Hemp products have been legally available in North Carolina since 2015, but a sunset provision in the state’s hemp law means this protection is set to expire June 30. With a popular and expanding industry at stake, legislators from both political parties seek to align North Carolina with federal law that allows hemp to be grown and sold.
In late May, the state Senate included a provision to legalize hemp in the 2022 Farm Bill while the state House proposed a standalone bill earlier this month that would forever remove hemp as a controlled substance. On June 22, the House cut the hemp provision from the Senate’s Farm Bill, leaving the standalone House bill as the only current legislation that would keep hemp legal beyond next week. [Read More @ The Asheville Citizen Times]
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