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- ↑ Saunders 1963, p. xxx.
- ↑ Yarnell 1998, p. 8.
- ↑ A.J. Herrington (September 25, 2017), "North Carolina Is Harvesting Its First Legal Hemp Crop in Decades", High Times
- ↑ Jeff Hampton (March 14, 2017), "Why is hemp farming so popular? Another state wants to find out", The Virginian-Pilot– via The Cannabist ( The Denver Post )
- ↑ John Hart (December 6, 2017), "Hemp's first year on North Carolina farms wraps up, a lot was learned", Southeast Farm Press
- ↑ Rachel Chason (April 4, 2017), "NC hemp commission considers joining lawsuit against DEA", The News & Observer , Raleigh, NC
- ↑ Nick Wilson (April 26, 2017), "DEA holds up industrial hemp in North Carolina", Mountain Xpress
- ↑ Nick Wilson (June 24, 2017), "WNC hemp crop is in the ground", Mountain Xpress
- ↑ Jonah Kaplan (November 22, 2017), I-Team: Farmers still high on hemp after first-year struggles, Raleigh, NC: WTVD News
- ↑ Katie Murawski (September 20, 2017), "North Carolina's first hemp processing facility to open in Asheboro", Yes! Weekly
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