Video: Weed, gerrymandering, and political corruption — ‘Billy Ball Explains NC’ is back ✊🏻

By Staff Reports, Billy Ball

October 23, 2025

In North Carolina, weed’s illegal, gerrymandering’s not — and politicians are rigging the rules to stay in power. We’re going to break it down it every week at “Billy Ball Explains NC.”

In the new, improved “Billy Ball Explains NC,” let’s make some sense of it all. Like and subscribe on Cardinal & Pine’s YouTube channel for more. And for our free, daily newsletter of all things North Carolina, use the form below.

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Billy Ball

Billy Ball is Cardinal & Pine's senior newsletter editor. He’s covered local, state, and national politics, government, education, criminal justice, the environment, and immigration in North Carolina for almost two decades. His reporting and commentary have earned state, regional, and national awards. He's also the founder of The Living South, a journalism project about the most interesting people in the American South.

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