Today’s must-read: When lawmakers voted to allow hemp production in 2018, they quietly opened the door to legal THC in all 50 states.
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When lawmakers voted to allow hemp production in 2018, they quietly opened the door to legal THC nationwide. They “didn’t realize that, with some chemistry and creativity, hemp can get you just as high as the dankest marijuana plant,” Mike Riggs writes.
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Drive through Durham, North Carolina, where I live, and you might get the impression that marijuana is legal here. Retail windows advertise THC in glittery letters and neon glass, and seven-pointed leaves adorn storefronts and roadside sandwich boards. The newest business near my house is the Stay Lit Smoke Shop, where an alien ripping a bong invites you to use the drive-through.
In fact, neither medical nor recreational marijuana is legal in North Carolina. Technically, we’re getting high on hemp.
This is probably not what Congress had in mind when it passed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018, commonly called the 2018 Farm Bill, which made the production of hemp—cannabis’s traditionally nonpsychoactive cousin—legal for the first time in nearly a century.
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