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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