5 Things To Know: New Bill Aims to Legalize Marijuana in North Carolina
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New Bill Aims to Legalize Marijuana in North Carolina
N.C. Rep. John Autry of Charlotte was one of four North Carolina legislators to introduce HB 617 a bill to legalize and regulate the sale, possession, and use of cannabis in North Carolina in the General Assembly this week.
As written, HB 617 will:
Establish the creation of the Office of Social Equity to conduct community reinvestment and repair, social equity, cannabis education and technical assistance activities.
Make legal the use, possession, and cultivation of up to 12 cannabis plants for persons 21 or older for personal use.
A Grieving Family Calls for Missing Persons Reform After Pleas Ignored
Missing or murdered? 7 minutes read
Signs hang at Davis Flohr Neighborhood Park in NoDa during an April 4 vigil for Mary Collins. (Photo by Grant Baldwin)
According to CMPD, more than 3,500 people are reported missing in Charlotte annually. On the department’s website, the protocol for missing persons reports is laid out relatively clearly, with stats that emphasize how rarely a missing persons report is the result of violent crime: 70% are teenagers, mostly runaways, while the other 30% are adults, and on average, less than 10 per year end up being the result of foul play.
Standing in her rainbow-tie-dyed sweatsuit, purple headband, and pink rain boots, Victoria Boyd was the most colorful person at Tent City as the sun set on Friday, Feb. 19. She was also one of the last.
An hour after a county-imposed deadline had passed ordering everyone out of the encampments that had popped up along 12th Street during the pandemic, I found Boyd wheeling a laundry cart full of firewood up an I-277 entrance ramp to a tent where she had stayed for the past six months.
Clothes hang to dry at Tent City at around 6 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19. (Photo by Grant Baldwin)
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BYU Religious Education Student Symposium committee chair Brad Farnsworth announced this year’s student winners on Feb. 19. There were 11 cash prize winners out of 20 video presentations. (BYU Religious Education Student Symposium)
The BYU Religious Education Student Symposium announced this year’s winners on Feb. 19 and posted student video presentations online.
Each year
BYU Religious Education accepts student submissions of research papers on gospel subjects. A committee reads through the papers and selects the best submissions to present at the yearly symposium. Presenters are eligible to win cash prizes and have their papers published.
The 2021 symposium was the first to be held completely online to comply with COVID-19 restrictions.