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North Carolina State Representative Kelly Alexander has introduced House Bill 577 that would legalize medical marijuana and establish a licensing, taxing, and distribution regime. The text of the bill starts out as “Modern medical research has discovered beneficial uses for cannabis in treating or alleviating pain, nausea, and other symptoms associated with certain debilitating medical conditions, as found by the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine in March 1999. According to the United States Sentencing Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 99 out of every 100 cannabis arrests in the United States are made under State law, rather than under federal law. Consequently, changing State law will have the practical effect of protecting from arrest the vast majority of seriously ill people who have a medical need to use cannabis.”
Anyway, this is old news, it was introduced in April of 2011 and has been stuck in committee since. But just in case anyone wanted to voice an opinion,as I know this is a big issue, there is a petition regarding this bill that already has over 4,000 signatures. If you’d like to sign to agree with the passage of this bill, you can visit it at here.
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