by operations | Sep 17, 2026 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
Emancipate NC Organizer Dedan Waciuri and attorneys Jaelyn Miller and Dillon Sharpe recently joined Emancipate NC Strategic Director Elizabeth Simpson’s UNC School of Law class, Social Justice Lawyering, to discuss the real-world impacts of marijuana convictions and...
by operations | Aug 20, 2026 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
By Attorney Jaelyn Miller For years, Emancipate NC’s Don’t Plead to Weed campaign has challenged the criminalization of marijuana in North Carolina—and the lasting harm that a marijuana charge can cause to people and families. Now, that work is connecting with a...
by operations | Feb 12, 2026 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
By Dillon Sharpe, Emancipate NC Attorney Marijuana remains illegal in North Carolina—but hemp is 100% legal. Across the state, countless businesses legally sell hemp products, including flower, vape cartridges, and edibles. Yet despite hemp’s clear legal status, most...
by operations | Sep 24, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News, Policing
Elizabeth Simpson, Strategic Director for Emancipate NC, recently authored an op-ed published in the News & Observer making the case against allowing police to use the odor of marijuana as justification for searches. She writes: “The N.C. Supreme Court should hold...
by operations | Sep 10, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News
A recent article in The Assembly shines a spotlight on the injustice that Emancipate NC clients—and countless others across North Carolina—continue to face. Ten years after the state legalized hemp, North Carolina still hasn’t updated its crime lab testing methods....
by operations | Aug 13, 2025 | Don't Plead to Weed, Emancipate NC News, Policing
By Emancipate Attorney Jaelyn Miller Emancipate NC attorneys Jaelyn Miller, Elizabeth Simpson, and Dillon Sharpe have filed a civil rights lawsuit against the Greenville Police Department after a student was wrongfully searched and cited for marijuana...
