TEXAS \u2014 The hemp industry in Texas saw two different rulings on Friday over the future of THC and hemp in the Lone Star State.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the same day, Travis County Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle extended a temporary injunction allowing the sale of smokable hemp in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The case was brought by hemp businesses and the Texas Hemp Business Council against new rules DSHS rolled out on March 31, which effectively banned smokable hemp. A Travis County judge put a temporary restraining order on the new rules in April, allowing businesses to continue to sell smokable hemp products pending a hearing.<\/p>\n
Lyttle\u2019s order extended that injunction on Friday, blocking DSHS from enforcing its new rules on THCA and Delta-9 until late July, when the final trial of the case is set. Lyttle also blocked other parts of the new rules, like transportation restrictions and higher fees for businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The state is expected to appeal Lyttle\u2019s ruling.<\/p>\n
But the Texas Supreme Court\u2019s decision could affect the future of the case in Travis County. The court\u2019s ruling states that DSHS has the authority to regulate controlled substances.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Texas Hemp Business Council said it is evaluating the Texas Supreme Court\u2019s ruling to determine its potential impacts to its case against DSHS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 The hemp industry in Texas saw two different rulings on Friday over the future of THC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1657,1658,132,134,133,102,223,287,82,13214,27],"class_list":["post-275184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-latest-local-state-politics-stories","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-san-antonio","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}