Hemp drugs will not be prohibited in NC — or will they?

“With hemp THC drugs wide open 24/7 and unregulated in North Carolina now, I see no chance that they will be fully prohibited. So I think the only hope for North Carolina is to regulate them.” — I wrote that in September, but now in November that Congress is treating hemp like marijuana, I’m not so sure. Here’s what I thought back then:

How does THC correlate with intoxication?

Does a milligram of THC in flower have the same effect as a milligram in an edible?

Yes, supposes the London, England, Mayor’s report. No, say Connecticut and the Marijuana Policy Group.

How the NC hemp bill, HB328, bans CBD — This got fixed

After this post, the NC House stripped out the CBD ban and ended up with only age-gating at 21. The bill moves on to the Senate as of June 26, 2025.

Here’s the original post, for the record:

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The primary intoxicant in marijuana or cannabis is THC. CBD, meanwhile. is universally acknowledged to be non-intoxicating .

But the North Carolina Farm Bill Drug bill that passed the Senate and is heading for the House allows THC but bans CBD. That’s crazy!

A Legislator told me I’m missing something — so I may be wrong here. But I offered a reward on Twitter or X for an explanation of what I’m missing, with no takers.

Let’s take a CBD gummy with no THC of any kind. I think it’s a “prohibited hemp-derived consumable product” under North Carolina House Bill 328.