By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 31, 2023 Promoters of marijuana often tout the drug’s effectiveness at treating nausea, and in fact nearly four decades ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved a synthetic version of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) to help treat that symptom in chemotherapy patients. But more recently, with the steep rise in […]
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Studies Show More Reasons Not to Legalize Marijuana
Pot Use Negative Impacts Development of Babies’ Brains and Adolescent Brains By L.A. Williams Christian Action League March 23, 2023 While North Carolina lawmakers consider whether to legalize marijuana for medicinal use, evidence of the serious harms caused by the drug continues to mount. Among the latest is research showing how pot use among pregnant […]
Republicans Barrel Ahead on Enabling Vice
Marijuana, gambling take a front seat in new legislative session. That’s disappointing under GOP leadership By Andrew Dunn Christian Action League March 16, 2023 I continue to be baffled by the energy and enthusiasm in the General Assembly’s Republican caucus for marijuana and gambling. Again this year, Republicans are the driving force behind bills to legalize marijuana […]
N.C. Senate Passes Medicinal Marijuana: It Will Do ‘More Harm than Good,’ Opponent Warns
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League March 3, 2023 A bill that would legalize the production and selling of marijuana for medical purposes passed the North Carolina Senate this week with bipartisan support despite opposition from groups who say there is no scientific support for the issue. The bill, S.B. 3, passed the Senate 36-10, […]
Rev. Mark Creech: Statement on Senate Passage of Medical Marijuana Bill
Christian Action League March 1, 2023 Today, the North Carolina Senate approved S.B. 3 – N.C. Compassionate Care Act – a measure to legalize marijuana as a medicine. Rev. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League, released the following statement to the press: The vote in the Senate today is most unfortunate. This […]
Medical Marijuana Bill Passes Committees, Heads to Senate Floor: It Will Harm Families, Opponents Warn
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League February 24, 2023 A bill that would legalize medicinal marijuana in North Carolina passed three Senate committees this week, even as speakers warned that its legalization is opposed by major medical and scientific organizations and would have a detrimental impact on the state. “There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence, but […]
Science Does not Support Medical Marijuana, Creech tells Senators: ‘Smoked Marijuana is not Medicine’
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League February 17, 2023 The head of the Christian Action League testified to a North Carolina Senate committee this week that neither science nor common sense supports the legalization of medical marijuana and that by passing a proposed bill, legislators would be performing an “end-run around the practice and the […]
North Carolinians Against Legalizing Marijuana will Partner with Christian Action League
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League January 20, 2023 Legalization of medical marijuana in North Carolina will “open the door” to full-blown legalization for its recreational use, says the head of an organization that is leading the effort to oppose such a bill. David Evans, the head of North Carolinians Against Legalizing Marijuana, says every […]
Rev. Creech Pens Op-Ed for Winston-Salem Journal: ‘Nothing Safe About the Safe Banking Act’
By L.A. Williams Christian Action League December 9, 2022 “Congress is considering the SAFE Banking Act, which would open the floodgates to the federal legalization of marijuana and harm public safety,” the Rev. Mark Creech wrote this week in The Winston-Salem Journal. In his op-ed piece, posted on the newspaper’s website Thursday, and in letters […]
Landmark Study: Marijuana No Better than Placebo at Reducing Pain
By Peyton Majors Christian Action League December 2, 2022 A landmark new study with surprising results on the lack of correlation between marijuana and pain relief could impact the debate over medicinal cannabis in North Carolina and elsewhere. The research, published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), involved a meta-analysis of […]