TEXAS — The hemp industry in Texas saw two different rulings on Friday over the future of THC and hemp in the Lone Star State.
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that state regulators may criminalize Delta-8 THC. The decision came from a case dating back to 2021, when the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) commissioner classified delta-8 as a controlled substance.
The state’s highest court said that DSHS has broad authority to regulate substances, reversing two lower court orders that blocked the controlled substance designation of Delta-8.
On the same day, Travis County Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle extended a temporary
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