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May he RIP.

Please be safe and vigilant y'all. I'm so sorry for this man and his family. Fuck this racist ass country

Hi folks! I just wanted to share once more about the new subreddit for Knightdale and its surrounding area: r/TownofKnightdale! Join us for all things Knightdale related. (Not a personal plug, just trying to get the word out to build the community)

Please join if you are able! City Council with then vote on April 18th at their regular meeting .

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Disclosure up front: I own a hemp shop in Salisbury, NC. I'm not linking it and I'm not selling anything here. But I've got skin in this and you should know that before you read the rest.

I've seen a lot of posts saying the CR "saves hemp" and that we're headed for a 5mg-per-serving world. That's not what the law says, and I had it wrong myself until I went and read it.

What's actually on the books. Section 781 caps finished hemp products at 0.4 milligrams of total THC per container. Not per serving. Per container. One 5mg gummy is more than twelve times over. A 10mg beverage is twenty-five times. A twenty-count jar is two hundred and fifty times. That threshold is low enough that it reaches a lot of ordinary full-spectrum CBD too.

It also has two exclusions people conflate. It knocks out cannabinoids that can't be naturally produced by the plant (HHC, THC-O), and separately cannabinoids that can be but were synthesized outside it. That second prong is what catches converted delta-8. The chemistry argument that delta-8 occurs naturally is correct and irrelevant — the statute turns on production method, not on whether the molecule shows up in the plant.

The 5mg thing is a bill, not a law. 5mg per serving, 50mg per container, age 21, third-party testing — that's the Cannabinoid Safety and Regulation Act and things like it. None of them have passed. When you see "here's what Congress is going to allow," that's a proposal being described as an outcome.

What the CR did. Senate voted 90-6 early Saturday to push the effective date from November 12 to December 11. House still has to agree when it's back from recess. Worth knowing: the delay went in at the White House's request, and the motion that killed Budd's amendment to strip it came from Klobuchar and passed 61-32 with Republicans on both sides. This is not breaking down along the lines people assume.

Also worth knowing: December 11 is also when government funding runs out, so this gets relitigated in the same package. And the White House legislative director reportedly told Senate Republicans there'd be no further extensions after this one. Take that for what a stated intention is worth.

Why NC is a special case, even in the good scenario. Say the 5mg framework passes and the headlines say hemp is saved. It would be, for a lot of people. But that framework legalizes low-dose products — beverages, light gummies. Not flower, not higher-dose anything.

In a state with dispensaries, fine: those products stay available through a licensed channel, and now you get the low-dose stuff at the grocery store too. Both.

NC is one of twelve states with neither medical nor adult-use. There is no licensed channel. So in that same scenario we get seltzers and nothing else. The flower has nowhere legal to exist here, because we never built the place for it to go.

That's the part I don't see discussed much: a federal fix that works everywhere else is still terminal in the states that never legalized, and it's terminal quietly, because nationally it reads as a win.

NC has no ballot initiative process, so the legislature is the only lever, and short session means no new bills. https://www.ncleg.gov/findyourlegislators

Happy to be corrected on any of this if I've misread something. I've already been wrong once this week.

This is just a little review and a warning to others:

I purchased two items from their store eleven months ago. I was super excited to get my jersey and t-shirt to show my support for the club. After eleven months they have still not shipped my order. When I attempted to reach out to the organization with my order number (and other details confirming my identity/order) they refused to respond via Facebook, which they are quite active on.

I emailed their general manager, who responded, saying he would look into the issue. After this initial interaction he has not responded and is ghosting my email attempts.

I filed a complaint with the consumer protection division of the NCDOJ. They were given fifteen days to respond. It’s been twenty-three days since they were notified of the complaint and they have failed to respond, continuing their pattern of ghosting communications. I’ve filed with the Better Business Bureau and the FTC.

(If this is not the proper place for this post, please remove it. I checked the rules and it doesn’t seemingly violate any. Just wanting to warn others since they took my money and won’t give a refund or the items)