INDY Week Candidate Questionnaire

11. Do you support reforming North Carolina’s marijuana laws? Do you support full legalization? Please explain your position. 

a. We should legalize and regulate medical and recreational marijuana in North Carolina. Marijuana has medicinal benefits for patients with chronic illnesses, like seizures, PSD, nausea, nerve pain, and cancer treatment side effects. It offers a much safer alternative to opiates in pain management, helping address the opioid epidemic we are facing. Marijuana legalization has been succeeded in the 38 states that legalized medical use and in the 23 states and DC that legalized recreational use. Revenue from marijuana sales would stimulate economic growth and the tax revenue from sales, if legalized, should be used for education, infrastructure projects, state employee pay raises, and mental health services. It would be vital, if legalized, to enhance the state’s research into the effects of marijuana and offer enhanced substance abuse support and prevention. When giving out contracts for marijuana farming, local, small family farms should have fair access to the market, therefore further supporting and growing our economy. Legalizing marijuana also would help alleviate the burdens currently placed on our criminal justice system through overcrowding due to non-violent marijuana incarcerations, reducing the number of people incarcerated. 

A- Candidate/legislator publicly supports ending prohibition of marijuana for adults.

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