Earlier this month, the Texas Department of State Health Services released regulations on consumable hemp-derived THC products that will go into effect on March 31. These new regulations include child-resistant packaging, a significant increase in licensing fees, new labeling, testing, and bookkeeping requirements. The rules also codify the legal purchasing age to 21, which went into effect last year as an emergency directive.
However, hemp retailers say the regulation that decreases the amount of total THC in products they sell to 0.3% will eliminate popular smokeable hemp products, such as rolled joints and smokeable flower buds, which make up more than 50% of some stores’ inventories.
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The rules also increase licensing fees for manufacturers of hemp-derived THC from $258 to $10,000 per facility and retail registrations from $155 to $5,000, which industry leaders say will fulfill the ban by forcing businesses to close.
My understanding was that Texas is explicitly the one State not to be messed with.
“Don’t Mess With Texas” was an anti-litter campaign and nothing else.
That’s what they SAY, but they also SAY States Rights when the federal government is trying to limit how bigoted and abusively states behave, but not when states are trying to limit how bigoted and abusively the federal government is allowed to behave within their borders.
Can’t say we didn’t warn 'em.