Bully for North Caroline. At the federal level, it is a schedule I drug, dispite the legal admonishion to reschedule it as an upshot of the DEA's own judicial inquiry of 1988 conducted by Judge-advocate Young, and the ludicrous spectacle of Marinol, which actually kills people, being prescribed, while marijuana is proscribed.
The reason for this curious Alice-in-Wonderland turn of events is that marijuana seizings are the vast majority of the drug war. Without marijuana, the DEA has to go back to begging congress for its funds, and the DEA knows it wouldn't survive critical congressional inquiry for very long given its current standards of behavior, and scientific acumen.