North Carolina state legislation (2021 NC Senate Bill 455) conforms state hemp laws with federal legislation (Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018) which defines “hemp” as “the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% on a dry weight basis.” The same law makes hemp no longer a controlled substance.
Smokable hemp is prohibited for use by participants at Living Action Inc events.
The use of smokable hemp products, regardless of the product’s THC concentration, claimed or actual, and regardless of whether such product may lawfully be bought, sold, and used under the law applicable to the public, is prohibited.
This policy is enacted as part of the Code of Conduct as part of Site Regulations for the following reasons:
- Living Action Inc events take place on State property.
- There is no immediate way to differentiate between hemp or marijuana; being the same plant, they cannot be independently verified by human or animal senses.
- There is no field test which can differentiate between hemp or marijuana; traditional chemical analysis only looks for the presence of THC, which is present in both. To distinguish hemp from marijuana, a chemical analysis that provides quantified levels of THC must be done. This is not a common test, and neither the NC State Crime Lab nor most local crime labs perform this type of testing.
Violations of this prohibition constitute breaking the code of conduct, and will result in disciplinary action, up to and including removal from the game.