RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A task force that Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper created to address and eliminate racial disparities in North Carolina’s criminal justice and court systems recommended on Wednesday that legislators decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana. ...

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By JEFF RAINES and MORGAN EDWARDS Capital News Service RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — “We do grams, eighths, quarters, half ounces, pounds, wholesale pounds — however you want it,” Jacob Stretch said, standing between crates of dried hemp in his living ...

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Police in North Carolina say they’ve seized about 200 pot-laced pieces of candy. Greenville police said the candy was likely intended to be sold at college parties and not handed out to children. The Greenville Daily Reflector reported Thursday that ...

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By MELISSA AZALLION The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently issued policy guidance in its policy manual, which states that violating a federal controlled substance law, including marijuana use, remains a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization ...

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  North Carolina’s burgeoning hemp industry has created a growing area of law practice that didn’t even exist until a couple of years ago, and the field is poised to expand even more if the state legislature approves a proposed ...

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A Mecklenburg County man convicted of selling marijuana did not receive ineffective assistance of counsel even though his attorney mistakenly waived his right to receive proper notice that prosecutors planned to raise an aggravating factor during his sentencing, the North ...

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We affirm the holding of the Court of Appeals (Defendant was found (1) in possession of illegal drugs on high school grounds where he was not a student, (2) in possession of “unsellable” remnant marijuana in two larger bags near ...

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G.S. § 90-87(15) excludes from the definition of “manufacture” “the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for his own use.” Therefore, an indictment which alleges the manufacture of marijuana by preparation must also allege an intent ...

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After the plaintiff-mother and the parties’ child moved first from Michigan (to escape the mother’s abusive boyfriend) to North Carolina and then to Florida, the child’s grades fell; therefore, the change in circumstances affected the child. We affirm the trial ...

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Rather than denying any knowledge of the drugs and paraphernalia found inside his car, or offering to Nashville police that a hitchhiker left it behind, Robert Coley Jr. gave, in his mind, a perfectly plausible explanation for why what appeared ...

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