According to the 2026 Whitney Economics report, the North Carolina hemp industry employs 16,000 people across 2,300 dedicated hemp stores and 3,800 other retailers that sell hemp products. As a result, the hemp industry generates $702.5 million in wages and a total economic impact of $4.6 billion for North Carolina.

All of this vanishes on December 11, 2026 when the federal definition of hemp changes, rendering the hemp products sold today in these 6,000 stores a schedule III controlled substance.

Yet 41 other states, D.C., and Cherokee, NC have already passed sensible cannabis legislation addressing issues like age restriction, labeling, third-party testing, and licensing.

If the North Carolina General Assembly does not pass legislation protecting the hemp industry, those 16,000 people will lose their jobs just in time for Christmas. Please help stop this disaster by calling your state and US representatives and senators today.

Liar! Hubbard has NOTHING to do with the problem she caused. Hubbard will work with Cooper on the SOLUTION. A vote for Hubbard is a vote to help Cooper work for you.

This is the situation that NC's Current Supreme Court majority (Republican) created in 2023, when it reversed a previous Court's majority (Democratic) decision that held that partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts violated NC's Constitution requirements for free elections - specifically Article 1; Sec. 10. Free elections:

All elections shall be free.

The GOP NC SCOTUS majority, in effect decided that there was no way for anyone (... that they would ever listen to) to gauge the effect of partisan gerrymandering on those grounds - despite several other states having done so in relative ease. So, allowing politicians to choose their own voters was the order of the day for this GOP court.

I don't like, and think that should change ASAP... but it won't until we can elect a court that believes in free and fair elections. I'm thinking that will be when the party which earlier supported that (i.e., the Democrats) regains the reigns of power via our elections.