Health care bills relating to cannabis, hospital transparency and Medicaid are on the docket for the 89th Texas Legislature.

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Nicholas Mortillaro, a cannabis business consultant and president of the Austin Charter for Hemp Industry Leaders of Texas, ...

Recreational marijuana is still illegal in Texas. The socially conservative Legislature has voted it down year after year.

Texas legalized the sale of hemp-derived products in 2019, and 111 retailers are registered to sell them in Cy-Fair today ...

The cultivation of hemp skyrocketed across the country following the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill. By 2021, the Texas Department of Agriculture reported it approved over 5,000 acres of land for ...

After lawmakers failed to outlaw delta-8 in 2021, the Texas Department of State Health Services stepped in. Texas’ hemp ...

The Texas hemp industry, meanwhile ... He joined the Hearst Austin bureau in 2021 after nearly three years as a City Hall reporter for the Chronicle and a prior stint covering Bexar County ...

In May 2021, a federal court ruled that delta-8 products can be legally defined as hemp. The ruling made delta-8 federally legal if the THC concentration is under 0.3 percent. Critics, like Texas ...

TEXAS - Since 1931, it has been illegal to use or possess marijuana under Texas law, but in 2018, hemp was made legal federally. Texas passed House Bill 1325 in 2019, which allowed for the ...