Kevin Sabet, CEO of SAM, wrote a key piece for the Carolina Journal on North Carolina’s dangerous House Bill 328. That law, if passed, will effectively provide a backdoor full legalization of weed via legal and “regulated” hemp-THC despite repeated rejections of legalization by the state.
As with many similar efforts around the country, the NC law is cloaked in the language of safety and regulation. But as the experiences of Connecticut, Colorado, New York, and elswhere have shown, “regulation” is impossible. No matter how many safeguards the state puts in place, dangerous drugs find their way (be it via hemp-THC or other formats) into the bodies of young kids and infants.
Worse, the bill would send a major signal of normalization, saying in effect that hemp-THC is somehow OK or safe or healthy. Wrong, wrong, wrong, as all the recent data shows.
Look at what THC does to your heart.
One major new study found a doubled risk of cardiovascular death associated with the drug.
And your mind.
Youth use significantly increases depression and sucidality.
THC can screw up, big time, the way your genes express themselves.
Meaning that even users’ kids might be affected despite never having taken a puff themselves.
Marijuana can cause uncontrollable vomiting and even rots your teeth!
How could any responsbile state legilslature even consider giving a greenlight to a substance like this?
Even under promises of “regulation”, the drug is a menace, pure and simple.
A key quote:
How much clearer can the danger here be? How can North Carolina consider giving a green light to any use, even if it’s “restricted”?
The answer isn’t “regulation,” which simply doesn’t work (just as it failed to keep kids from drinking alcohol and smoking tobacco).
North Carolina should just say no. Read Kevin’s whole piece here.