Speaker: Kate Nisbet, Interior Designer, Mom, & Wife
Kate Nisbet: I went through 2 surgeries, 16 rounds of chemotherapy, and 20 rounds of radiation.
Kate Nisbet: Hi, I'm Kate. I am from Raleigh, North Carolina, and I am a hemp customer.
Kate Nisbet: In June of 2025, as a 43-year-old mom of two middle school aged boys, I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. The treatment was grueling and took months. I went through 2 surgeries, 16 rounds of chemotherapy, and 20 rounds of radiation. In that time, I turned to hemp to give me a sense of. Calm and peace when I was facing a life changing. Diagnosis. I found that it allowed me to be more present with my family. It helped me get out of bed on some days when I felt my worst and most nauseating. It allowed me to feel and enjoy little things in life a little bit more than I would have on traditional pharmaceutical pain or anti-nausea meds. I'm a big believer in low-dose hemp products that are regulated and available to responsible adults.
Kate Nisbet: If all access to hemp products is banned starting December 11th, my Life will be greatly impacted in the negative, I have used. Temp-based seltzers to replace alcohol in my recovery. It helps me relax. It helps me focus. It helps me be more creative. It helps me process all of the hardships and struggles that I've been through, and ultimately leads me to being a better, more calm parent and human. I am quite worried that if the products are removed from shelves. In December that. I will have to turn to more. Harsh pharmaceuticals, to aid in my healing and recovery. I've been calling this my recovery era, and I'm doing quite well. And I do attest a lot of that to hemp products. I was able to keep up my appetite and my strength during my treatment. I kept moving. I walked every day, and I attribute a lot of those things to hemp. And if it's gone, It would really upset my balance that I have created, for my day to day life in recovery, and I would really hate to see other Parents or people like me, quote unquote normies that will lose access and not have the ability to access these products that really did. Make a really terrible, intolerable time of my life more tolerable.
Kate Nisbet: My hope for lawmakers during these times of discussion and revision is that they can come to some common sense regulations as opposed to a total ban. I would like to see safeguards put in place where products have to be labeled appropriately, have to be not marketed to children, have to be sold by licensed, Licensed dispensaries or regulated agencies. We do it with alcohol, we do it with tobacco. I don't see why we can't hold this in the same accountability for responsible adults to have access.
