Unregulated sales of intoxicating cannabis products have created a “wild west” where items are sold with no testing, uniform labeling, or potency limits, a state advisory council said this week.
The North Carolina legislature needs to pass a law regulating the sale of cannabis, the North Carolina Advisory Council on Cannabis, wrote in its interim report.
Gov. Josh Stein appointed the advisory council to make recommendations to “create a safe, legal market for adults that protects kids,” he said in a June 2025 announcement.
Gummies, drinks, and other edibles containing intoxicating THC derived from hemp are currently legal. North Carolina has no age restrictions on sales, so children can buy them.
“Intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoid products, often marketed as legal alternatives to marijuana, are being sold in an environment without any uniform standards for manufacturing, testing, labeling, packaging, or age verification, and absent any enforcement or oversight authority,” the advisory council report says.
“As a result, North Carolina’s cannabis marketplace has been characterized as a “wild west” landscape. North Carolinians – including our youth – can legally purchase intoxicating hemp-derived products devoid of any potency limits, standardized laboratory testing, or clear labeling requirements, raising significant and widespread concerns regarding consumer safety, youth access, and public health. The absence of statewide enforcement authority and regulatory guardrails have created uncertainty for consumers, responsible businesses, healthcare providers, educators, parents, and law enforcement and most importantly, have put North Carolinians at risk.”
The legislature has attempted to pass laws regulating hemp-derived products, but differences between Republicans in the House and Senate have doomed those efforts.
Discussion of regulating THC in the state is taking place against a shifting federal backdrop.
A 2018 federal Farm Bill legalized hemp production and paved the way for legal sales of products containing THC. A federal law passed last year meant to close “the Farm Bill loophole” caps the amount of THC in each container. Producers and sellers of products containing THC derived from hemp say the restriction will drive them out of business.
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Last December, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would ease restrictions on marijuana, making it easier to conduct research into medical uses. The order also encourages revisiting the hemp-derived THC limits.
The state advisory council is set to produce a final report in December.
Among its recommendations so far are regulating products based on total THC, no matter whether it comes from hemp or marijuana.
The advisory council co-chairs, Dr. Lawrence Greenblatt, state health director and chief medical officer at the NC Department of Health and Human Services, and Robeson County District Attorney Matthew Scott, propose a legal, regulated market for adults, with protections for medical marijuana users.
“It provides a way for the state to oversee and regulate the existing but unregulated market in North Carolina,” the report says.
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