“Our state’s unregulated cannabis market is the wild west and is crying for order. Let’s get this right and create a safe, legal market for adults that protects kids.”
People of almost any age can walk into stores in North Carolina and buy vape products, gummies, drinks and other hemp-derived consumables that contain some of the same high-inducing medicinal compounds as marijuana.
This could be about to change.
North Carolina lawmakers have been debating for years about regulating hemp and marijuana products. Now state lawmakers and an advisory council tapped recently by the governor are looking again for ways to control the growing synthetic hemp and unregulated cannabis market described by some as a “wild west” in need of taming.
Marijuana is not legal for recreational use in North Carolina despite the growing number of states that have legalized it for such purposes. Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and three territories have legalized cannabis for nonmedical adult use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Thirty-nine states allow the medical use of cannabis products, the association adds.
“There is no legal minimum age to purchase these products. That means kids are
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