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Mark Creech | Courtesy of Mark Creech The story has been told and retold. It’s been said that Benjamin Franklin had just walked outside of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 when someone inquired, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?” Franklin is said to have responded: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Historians say the quote actually doesn’t appear in Franklin’s writings, nor was it ever recorded as such in newspaper accounts of his day. According to the Washington Post, it first appeared in 1906 in the American ...

Unsplash / Creative Commons A proposed medical marijuana law for North Carolina cleared its first significant hurdle on Wednesday as a Senate committee approved bipartisan legislation that creates a patient, manufacturing, licensing and sales structure for its use. A majority of judiciary committee members agreed on a voice vote for the measure to offer marijuana legally for easing pain and nausea associated with several illnesses and diseases. Some supporters say cannabis use can lessen the severity of their afflictions. The measure is about giving “some compassionate care for specific ai...

A bill that would permit the use of medical marijuana in North Carolina cleared the first committee step Wednesday on a long, daunting and controversial legislative journey. The bipartisan Senate Bill 711, titled “NC Compassionate Care Act,” is the latest in a 12-year attempt to permit some uses of medical marijuana. The Senate Judiciary committee spent about 65 minutes on the bill, which followed 45 minutes during a discussion-only presentation on June 23. SB711 still must clear — in order — the Finance, Health Care and Rules and Operations committees before a potential S...

There’s no reason to expect the N.C. General Assembly to enact a bill this year or next that will legalize marijuana in any way, even for medicinal purposes. But it’s

The North Carolina General Assembly on Tuesday finalized another bill seeking to expand gun rights and will send it to Gov. Roy Cooper, who vetoed a bill containing the same idea a year ago.