For more than a decade, North Carolinaâs Democratic legislators have pushed one form or another of a medical marijuana bill, intended to safely, under strictly controlled conditions, allow cannabis to be used to alleviate one or another type of pain. They inevitably went nowhere.
But now that conservative, rock-ribbed Republicans are promoting a medical marijuana bill, success is more likely.
It brings to mind the political metaphor: Only Nixon could go to China.
The N.C. Compassionate Care Act is actually a bipartisan bill: Its primary sponsors are Sen. Bill Rabon, R-Brunswick, chairman of the Rules and Operations committee; Sen. Paul Lowe, D-Forsyth; and Sen. Michael Lee, R-New Hanover. Support for it is broad throughout the state legislature.
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The story has been told and retold. Itâs been said that Benjamin Franklin had just walked outside of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 when someone inquired, âDoctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?â Franklin is said to have responded: âA republic, if you can keep it.â
Historians say the quote actually doesnât appear in Franklinâs writings, nor was it ever recorded as such in newspaper accounts of his day. According to the Washington Post, it first appeared in 1906 in the American Historical Review. âThe Review was publishing for the first time the notes of James McHenry, a Maryland Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The notes are both more and less specific than the legend,â claims the Post.
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