11/11/2025
Please see comments below from Senator Rand Paul regarding a potential Ban of certain h**p products nationwide. This form of long-arm federalism will devastate the growing h**p industry in North Carolina to the tune of 238 million, as of the 2023 USDA H**p study. This decision should remain with the states to regulate, as our great state has already done through the guidance of the 2018 Farm Bill.
This sudden and drastic rug-pull will create an economic shockwave across the state, creating new legislative obligations for the state legislators to tackle, and creating another burden on law enforcement to understand how to enforce this new ban on a substance that, for the past three years, they were explicitly instructed by state law to ignore. The state law being referenced is SB 455, signed into law by former Gov. Cooper in 2022, which removed H**p and its derivatives from the state-controlled substances act. These derivatives are the main subject of the ban.
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