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Justices will have to decide who has the final say on whether delta-8 THC is legal: the Texas Legislature or the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Hemp advocates say raising annual licensing fees for retailers from $150 to $20,000 and for manufacturers from $250 to $25,000 would shutter small businesses.

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s agriculture business grows hemp without irrigation, insecticides or plowing. Now its product is helping to build a home in Ogden.

Many consumable, hemp-derived products will become illegal again. CBD shop owners in Kansas say the change could kill their whole industry.

The suit says the KBI testing regimen improperly resulted in seizure of compliant goods.

Kansas hemp growers and processors say the new, stricter federal law could derail the entire industry. The state has grown to one of the top five hemp producing states in the country.

Legislators couldn't reach a last-minute deal to tighten regulations on consumable hemp products.

The House on Wednesday approved the ban, after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening regulations.

SB3 would ban the sale of consumable THC products, but cannabis reform advocates worry it would have far-reaching – and expensive – consequences.

Lawmakers are struggling to balance demands for medicinal cannabis products with a wildly growing market that is outpacing meaningful regulation.