Pot Legal in North Carolina?
allen griggs
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I never thought I would see it. First Virginia, next, it is being discussed in South Carolina, and now North Carolina.
- NC medical marijuana bill approved by another Senate panel
by Associated PressThursday, July 22nd 2021
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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2019, file photo, marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif. Federal health officials are issuing a national warning against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize some forms of the drug's use. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)
ASSOCIATED PRESS — Legislation to legalize marijuana for medical use in North Carolina advanced through another Senate panel on Wednesday.
Members of the Senate Finance Committee, which voted for the legislation, narrowed their review to fees and revenues collected in the measure.
They include charging cannabis customers to get special ID cards. The state's 10 pot suppliers also must obtain licenses and send a portion of monthly revenues to state coffers.
An amendment approved by the committee made clear that the program would be self-supporting and not need other state revenues to operate.
The bill, which cleared a judiciary committee last month, would allow patients who have one of several "debilitating medical conditions" like cancer, epilepsy or HIV to purchase and use marijuana products. The producers, licensed by a new state commission, could open four stores each.
Several speakers addressed the committee, some of whom said the state was failing to capture more money from the supplier licenses. Some social conservatives continued to oppose the measure entirely, while others told legislators cannabis access would help the sick ease pain and nausea.
The measure still must go through two more committees before reaching the Senate floor.
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Medical use and recreational use are different.
I know, but whether you favor legalization or not, making "medical" legal is just a stepping stone for all out legalization.
Just a back door way to take away firearms.
Thank God it won't happen in Texas.
If it helps relieve sick/terminal people with pain I see nothing wrong with it but to have legislators with a few select friends and donors growing it and then on top of that setting up a new state government commission to run it, to that I say...Bah-Humbug. Watch and see how many "regular Joe" farmers are selected vs. corporate farms which will monopolize the industry with control & prices. We all know how government muddles up good ideas 🙄.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
Very interesting to me to hear y'alls reports, where people who have signed up for legal pot, and buy it, then go in to the gun store and are basically told "Nix to you, you are a doper." Conflict between state and Fed laws. Very interesting.
Not to mention all the pothead dopers that pay fake, less than stellar doctors for a script for "medical weed"
Follow the money and the states will all do it, eventually. In Illinois is started with medical now for anyone who has the cash with a 35% tax on sales!
IMHO, the federal government needs to decriminalize marijuana.
No I do not use the stuff, but I still think the fed make it legal.
Yep, agree. There's a reason it's called dope, but that's for people to decide for themselves. There are lots of "freedom" lovers that here that just don't quite get it.
But if the Feds make it legal to possess and your able to grow your own then that takes all the politicians undertable payola and government tax money away......can we have that, No,...can't let that happen, it won't work.....LOL
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
You can still legally make alcoholic beverages and grow tobacco for you own consumption. As far as I know depending on the state.
Anytime the fed gets involved things go downhill fast.
Yes you can make wine, but distilled alcohol, Verboten. Funny, in Fifth Grade I did a science project where I made moonshine! A precocious little smart * I was, I guess. I got a quart of grapes and put them in a jar with sugar, water, and yeast. Four days later I took it to school. I had a little propane burner, and a coil of copper tube. I put a wet cloth on the tube to cause the steam to condense. I heated the grape mash and the steam went up and condensed, and I made 1/4 cup of moonshine for the class to see. Since it was distilled grape mash, technically I was making Cognac. Mrs. Cofield was very impressed and I made an "A."
I guess she was unaware that we were breaking Federal law.
No problem with the medical use . Seen to many friends suffer needlessly with cancer etc . Federal law will change soon enough.
As stated, it is all about the tax revenue.
Second hand smoke- bad
second hand pot smoke- good
Maybe they’ll bring back the smoking-non-smoking sections in restaurants?
There is no conflict between state & federal pot laws; the Constitution says that federal law takes precedence over state & local law. Period. How long did it take before the feds told us that honest completion of Form 4473 could keep you from buying firearms?
Any Congress could pass a law permitting the use of pot, but none has done so. Any president could have called in the director of the FDA, & told him "take marijuana off of schedule 1", but none has.
Most states have made legal pot so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it. The last I heard, it was selling for $650/oz. Those with low income will continue to buy the dirty, but cheap, pot smuggled across the southern border.
Neal
I don't know what it is anywhere else,
A friend that smokes it tells me that here in Colorado you can find it for around $100 an ounce + or -
Like I said, it is all about the tax revenue.
In 2020 alone, here is Colorado, it brought in $387,480,110.
Since it was legal, it has brought in more than $1,812,483,069
That is almost 2 BILLION dollars.
Tell me it is not about the tax.
That’s a lot of money, but the tax and spend Democrats probably spend that much and more for additional employees and expenses due to regulations and enforcement.