North Carolina’s Democratic governor and Republican House speaker have a disagreement on marijuana legalization.
Gov. Josh Stein (D), who supports legalizing cannabis, said in a new interview that “we need to have a well-regulated market that puts public safety and public health at its center.”
“It protects kids, and it is available for adult use—because adults are using it, and we can’t put our heads in the sand any longer,” he said.
House Speaker Destin Hall (R), however, said, “I know our caucus has no interest in doing any sort of marijuana, medicinal or otherwise.”
Both leaders’ comments were reported by local news outlet The Assembly, which has been tracking efforts this session to pass legislation to regulate intoxicating hemp products.
A commission that Stein empaneled last year recently issued a report recommending that rather than have separate frameworks for hemp and marijuana, the state should regulate THC as a molecule.
“There actually used to be a distinction in the law,” the governor said in the new interview. “The two plants, naturally grown, had different THC levels. You’d smoke hemp, it would take a whole lot to get you high—and it might not. Once hemp was legalized, both growers and
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