“Regulation is what we need. Prohibition is just hilarious regression.”
By Trevon Spencer, NC Newsline
Chris Karazin started Carolindica with his brother and a friend in 2019, making homemade CBD products in a kitchen while working other jobs to pay the bills.
“I didn’t even get a paycheck until three years ago,” Karazin said.
Seven years later, the Raleigh-based company has grown into a multi-store hemp business with manufacturing operations and dozens of employees. New customers still walk through Carolindica’s doors every day.
Now, a looming change in federal law is forcing Karazin to reconsider the company’s future.
Beginning December 11, federal restrictions will sharply narrow which hemp-derived cannabinoid products qualify as legal. Congress approved the new federal regulations in 2025 as part of the tax cut and spending measure known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Under the new law, the only hemp products that will be legal are those with no more than 0.4 milligrams of THC compounds per consumer container, a threshold that could outlaw many products currently sold in stores.
The restrictions were originally scheduled to take effect in November, but Congress extended the deadline by a month.
One part of the law is still scheduled to take
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