North Carolina HB 413: Funds to Support Greensboro/US Figure Skating.

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 413

Short Title: Marijuana Legalization and Reinvestment Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Lopez, Dew, Hawkins, and Harrison (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
March 18, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO LEGALIZE AND REGULATE THE SALE, POSSESSION, AND USE OF 2
CANNABIS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
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PART I. LEGALIZATION OF POSSESSION AND SALE OF CANNABIS 6
SECTION 1.1. The General Statutes are amended by adding a new Chapter to read: 7
"Chapter 18D. 8
"Regulation of Cannabis. 9
"Article 1. 10
"General Provisions. 11
"§ 18D-100. Findings. 12
The General Assembly finds all of the following: 13
(1) Cannabis prohibition, like alcohol prohibition before it, has been a wasteful 14
and destructive failure. About half of Americans admit to having used 15
cannabis despite more than eight decades of prohibition. 16
(2) Regulating cannabis similarly to alcohol will replace the uncontrolled illicit 17
market with a well-regulated system. Legalization allows regulation and 18
control to protect consumers, workers, communities, and the environment. 19
(3) The prohibition of cannabis has had an unfair, disparate impact on persons 20
and communities of color. A 2020 report by the American Civil Liberties 21
Union found black individuals are three and six-tenths times as likely as white 22
individuals to be arrested for cannabis possession, despite nearly identical use 23
rates. 24
(4) The prohibition of cannabis diverts law enforcement resources from violent 25
and property crimes and subjects civilians to unnecessary police interactions. 26
(5) Keeping cannabis illegal deprives the State of thousands of legal jobs and 27
hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue. 28
(6) The use of cannabis should be legal for persons 21 years of age or older and 29
subject to taxation and regulation in a manner that does all of the following: 30
a. Controls the production and distribution of cannabis under a system of 31
licensing, regulation, and taxation. 32
b. Includes lab testing, potency labeling, secure packaging, restrictions 33
on advertising, and education about responsible use and risks. 34

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c. Fosters a responsible industry, whereby businesses will only be 1
allowed to expand if they prioritize diversity, good wages, 2
sustainability, and community investment. 3
d. Promotes the participation of individuals most impacted by cannabis 4
prohibition in the legal, regulated industry. 5
e. Generates needed revenue, including to reinvest in communities that 6
have been disproportionately impacted by prohibition, for substance 7
abuse treatment and education, and to train more law enforcement 8
officers to detect impaired driving. 9
(7) It is necessary to ensure consistency and fairness in the application of this 10
Chapter throughout the State and that, therefore, the matters addressed by this 11
Chapter are, except as specified herein, matters of statewide concern. 12
"§ 18D-101. Definitions. 13
Unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply in this Chapter: 14
(1) Cannabis. – All parts of the plant of the genus cannabis, the seeds thereof, the 15
resin extracted from any part of the plant, and every compound, manufacture, 16
salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds, or its resin, 17
including cannabis concentrate. "Cannabis" does not include hemp, nor does 18
it include fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the seeds of 19
the plant, or sterilized seed of the plant, which is incapable of germination. 20
(2) Cannabis accessories. – Any equipment, products, or materials of any kind 21
that are used, intended for use, or designed for use in planting, propagating, 22
cultivating, growing, harvesting, composting, manufacturing, compounding, 23
converting, producing, processing, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, 24
repackaging, storing, vaporizing, or containing cannabis, or for ingesting, 25
inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis into the human body. 26
(3) Cannabis cultivation facility. – An entity registered to cultivate, prepare, and 27
package cannabis and sell cannabis to other cannabis establishments but not 28
to consumers. A cannabis cultivation facility may not produce cannabis 29
concentrates, tinctures, extracts, or other cannabis products unless it is also 30
licensed as a cannabis product manufacturing facility. 31
(4) Cannabis delivery service. – An entity registered to deliver cannabis to 32
consumers. 33
(5) Cannabis establishment. – A cannabis cultivation facility, a cannabis delivery 34
service, an on-site consumption establishment, a cannabis testing facility, a 35
cannabis product manufacturing facili