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"Developing a thriving N.C. cannabis industry follows a crooked path." Up until it was outlawed in 1940, North Carolina produced enough hemp to export small amounts. In 2017, the state's Industrial Hemp Pilot Program brought back production. Policing continues to be a major issue.. For now, recreational marijuana remain illegal.
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Business North Carolina
(NoCar HF 5001 B8x), Vol. 41 Issue 8, August 2021,
p44-47
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43405
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"Absent from North Carolina’s landscape for 80 years, the plant with a hundred uses finds its way back to the fields." Ryan Patterson currently farms 1,000 acres in the Broadway community near Sanford and along the Harnett County line. In 2016, he began investigating hemp production and a year later secured one of the first hemp-growing licenses in North Carolina. He is co-owner of Broadway Hemp Company. David Suchoff with North Carolina State University says a plus to tobacco with hemp production is that the infrastructure requirements are nearly the same.
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