Texas Medical Marijuana Industry to Push for Hemp Age Restrictions and Delta-8 Ban

Delta-8 vs. Delta-9: Why Texas’ Marijuana Dispensaries Say They Can’t Compete - Reform Austin

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… Texas’ medical marijuana industry entered 2025’s legislative session with a clear mission: to expand access for patients in need and to rein in a loosely regulated hemp market that threatens its survival. While lawmakers passed House Bill 46, which loosens some operational restrictions for the state’s Compassionate Use Program, Governor Greg Abbott’s recent veto of a bill to restrict hemp…

Texas Medical Marijuana Industry to Push for Hemp Age Restrictions and Delta-8 Ban

By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune AUSTIN, TX — Texas’ medical marijuana dispensaries entered into this year’s legislative session with a two-prong strategy to expand: to loosen the state's rules on their industry that has made the program largely inaccessible to those who need it and to eliminate the competition, consumable hemp, which has been allowed to proliferate unregulated, cannibalizing users and profits. Learn More Here.