The Sweeten Creek facility, which is anticipated to open in August, brings 38 additional acute behavioral care beds to Western North Carolina.
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Letter: Get on with legalizing medical marijuana
‘Why is North Carolina so far behind the other states? We should be moving to legalizing marijuana and mushrooms.’
GA short session yields both change and inertia for WNC
From occupancy tax allocations and hemp production to private bar membership, state legislators voted on several measures that are consequential to WNC in their recently concluded short session.
Letter: Start with legalizing medical marijuana
“Marijuana is beneficial for many people for a variety of issues, both physically and mentally.”
Letter: Medical marijuana should be legal here
“There should be commonsense laws that go along with it, but don’t make it difficult for citizens to buy it.”
Letter: Fix the medical marijuana bill
“It will hand production and sales to wealthy, established corporations, and local North Carolina hemp farmers won’t be able to compete.”
Letter: Take steps to legalize medical marijuana
“Small steps forward are better than no steps forward!”
N.C. may inch closer to legalizing medical marijuana
Supporters of medical marijuana and the local hemp industry want to see the state allow the use of cannabis as a treatment option for debilitating medical conditions. But there are disagreements with Senate Bill 711 as written.
Green in brief: Cherokee establish framework for medical marijuana cultivation
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council passed an ordinance on Aug. 5 allowing production and use of the crop, which the body had previously voted to decriminalize on May 6.
Letter: NC needs medical marijuana
“Chronic pain sufferers must now go to ‘pain clinics,’ where if marijuana is found in their urine, they will promptly be deprived of the medication they need to function.”
Asheville Council passes resolution supporting medical cannabis
Asheville City Council heard from advocates of medical cannabis and passed a resolution in support of legislation that would legalize the medical use of the drug in North Carolina at its meeting on June 27.
North Carolina inches closer to legalization of medicinal marijuana
North Carolina could conceivably be one of the next states to legalize marijuana use for medicinal purposes, according to a report by higherperspective.com.