Record and sources
Rules and source trail
Illegal / prohibited
North Carolina has not legalized a statewide medical or adult-use marijuana market, and state law criminalizes unauthorized possession. The sovereign Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians separately permits adults 21 or older to purchase regulated marijuana on Tribal land; the Tribal regulator warns that taking it off Tribal land remains illegal under North Carolina and federal law.
- Effective from
- 2026-08-22T00:00:00.000Z
- Supporting sources
- 6
Supporting sources
- Chapter 90 — Article 5, version 1, Marijuana definition, schedules, exceptions
- G.S. 90-95 — Violations; penalties, version 1, Subsections (a), (d)(4), (h)(1)
- FAQs, version 1, Off-Tribal transport and purchase-card questions
- Ordinance No. 63 (2024) — Adult Use Cannabis and Hemp, version 1, Adult-use authorization and code amendments
- Code of Ordinances, version 1, Marijuana and controlled-substance chapters
- Advisory Council on Cannabis Interim Report, version 1, Current State of Cannabis in North Carolina