![]() ![]() Licensees would have to send 10% of their monthly revenues to the state.Ī nearly identified medical marijuana bill from Rabon passed the Senate in June 2022 but stalled in the House. Qualified patients who are at least 21 and their caregivers would have to receive registration cards from the state to buy cannabis at a center. “All of these conditions have very weak evidence that marijuana may be helpful.” We decide it based on science,” Evans told the committee. But “we do not decide medicine in the United States by anecdote or by stories. “I know that tens of thousands of people in the state would benefit just as I did” if the medical marijuana bill became law, he added.ĭavid Evans, the head of North Carolinians Against Legalizing Marijuana, said he’s had cancer three times and sympathizes with anyone with a serious illness. Having access to the tokes at home is “the only reason I’m alive today,” he told the committee. He said he told his local police chief and sheriff that “I’m going to have to buy drugs illegally to stay alive.” He never had to - Rabon said pot would show up in his mailbox as needed. Rabon said he didn’t do drugs but was worried and desperate. Rabon recalled how the oncologist said a more aggressive form of treatment would make him “real sick,” and told him he needed “to get some good marijuana.” Rabon was dissatisfied with chemotherapy treatment after three months. After surgery, Rabon’s oncologist said that he had 18 months to live. Rabon, now 71, said he was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer at age 48. The veterinarian recalled taking a few puffs at home after days of tremendous nausea at work to get through to the next day. Rabon had described himself as a colon cancer survivor, but had been reticent on many details, particularly whether he had used marijuana, until pitching his bill in the House Health Committee three months after it passed the full Senate. Legislative opponents of the idea - fewer than in previous years but still a significant bloc - argue that marijuana can lead to medical harm, only masks symptoms and would lead to making recreational use lawful. Bill Rabon of Brunswick County has been working for years on a measure that lays out a structure for patients with serious and life-ending illnesses to lawfully obtain cannabis and smoke or consume it to gain relief. (AP) - The North Carolina General Assembly’s chief advocate for legalizing medical marijuana in the state revealed publicly on Tuesday how he smoked pot over 20 years ago to withstand discomforts of intense chemotherapy during a fight with cancer. The living wage is now $16.60 an hour, and the budget funds new part- and full-time positions, including six human services specialists, three solid waste drivers, four detention officers, a community paramedic, and housing grants and capital projects field coordinators.RALEIGH, N.C. ▪ County staff: Employees will get a 6% pay increase and continue to earn merit bonuses. Tax rates - levied on every $100 in property value - rose in Cedar Grove (9 cents), Damascus (12.8 cents), Efland (10.28 cents), Little River (7.39 cents), New Hope (12.57 cents), Orange Grove (8.27 cents), Orange Rural (10.49 cents), Southern Triangle (12.80 cents), and White Cross (13.84 cents). ▪ Fire district tax rates: Fire district taxes help local fire departments buy equipment and hire personnel. Homeowners in the county schools district do not pay the special tax. The owner of a $400,000 house in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district will pay $792, an extra $60 in property taxes. ▪ Schools tax rate: 19.8 cents per $100 in assessed property value. ![]()
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