Texas veterans vow to protect the state’s hemp market as one state lawmaker hopes to crack down February 6, 2023 AggregatedNews Texas 0 Comments Texas veterans are working to protect the state’s hemp market — and push to expand the state’s medical marijuana program — at the state Capitol during this year’s legislative session. The veterans and their supporters say they need access to… Read More→
He spent a month in Texas jail accused of hauling 3,350 pounds of marijuana. But lab results say it was legal hemp. January 7, 2020 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Texas 0 Comments In the ongoing chaos of hemp’s legalization that has sent marijuana prosecutions plummeting, Texas has encountered a 3,350-pound problem. Last month, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper arrested a driver who the agency claimed was hauling more than a ton of marijuana… Read More→
Texas farmers see new source of green in legal hemp August 30, 2018 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments Take a trip down the aisle of the nearest Whole Foods Market and it won’t take long to fill a shopping basket with products trumpeting the health and beauty benefits of a commodity Texas farmers are forbidden to grow: hemp.… Read More→
Texas Advocates Are Pushing To Legalize Hemp July 18, 2018 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments Farmers in Texas are well positioned to be top producers of what’s poised to become the next major U.S. cash crop — hemp — but only if state lawmakers let them, advocates told a legislative committee at the Capitol on… Read More→
Texas Backs Off Changes That Could’ve Led to CBD Confiscation, for Now May 23, 2018 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Texas 0 Comments The Texas Department of State Health Services has tapped the brakes on a proposed protocol that could've seen all food and supplements containing cannabidiol oil removed from Texas store shelves, thanks to a deluge of comments sent to the agency… Read More→