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Watauga County Cooperative Extension Report to the People Luncheon on Monday, March 4

Watauga County Cooperative Extension Report to the People Luncheon on Monday, March 4
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'It's a true need': Local farm and counties collaborate on Boone slaughter facility – The Appalachian

For over 150 years, five generations of the Shipley family have raised cattle on the clover-rich, rolling pastures of Vilas, North Carolina. Their cattle matures without steroids, hormones or feedlots, eating only from the surrounding grassy hills. “No shortcuts. We keep the cattle on the pasture and let them do the work,” said Gray Shipley,. ....

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Farm City Banquet honors the best and brightest in local agriculture

BOONE — A “who’s who” of the High Country’s agricultural industry gathered at Boone United Methodist Church on Thursday, Nov. 9, for the 67th annual Farm City Banquet, a long-running ....

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Legal marijuana in North Carolina? Task force recommends state look to legalizing the drug, follow others leads
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Dec 16, 2020
HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Election, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational.
Many states have gone through a step-by-step process toward legalization, starting with medicinal use and going up to regulated legalization. However, South Dakota went from illegal to totally legal in only one election.
North Carolinaâs legalization efforts have stopped at allowing CBD hemp, a low-to-no-THC form of the plant. In the past 10 years, the stateâs stance on the still federally illegal drug has gone from the norm to an outlier, with neighboring Virginia even moving for legalization. With an already more tolerati ....

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Task force recommends state look to legalizing marijuana, follow others' leads

HIGH COUNTRY â While much of the focus was on the U.S. presidential race in the 2020 General Elections, voters in five states also approved the legalization of marijuana, bringing the total to 36 states that have legalized it for medical use, if not recreational.
However, the discussion of legalization is not stopping at the state level. On Dec. 4, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the MORE Act with a 228-158 vote. A large part of the MORE Act is the focus on how non-white Americans have been disproportionally affected by marijuana laws.
The North Carolina Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice, which was convened by N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper via Executive Order 145 on June 9, focuses on such issues. The task force made preliminary recommendations on Nov. 18 to help deal with oversights, discriminations and other problems minorities face when it comes to the stateâs law enforcement and judicial systems. ....

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