{"id":395395,"date":"2026-08-02T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395395\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T10:06:09","slug":"san-antonio-police-enforcing-wide-ranging-texas-thc-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/395395\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio police enforcing wide-ranging Texas THC ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

The San Antonio Police Department has started enforcing a new Texas law that bans a wide swath of popular hemp products.<\/p>\n

Starting Friday, products containing cannabinoids such as delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC and THCP were banned in Texas<\/a>. Carrying them is now a felony.<\/p>\n

Those products include many popular edibles, beverages and smokable hemp products previously sold by retailers across the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe San Antonio Police Department will follow Texas law and will enforce the reclassification of Delta-8, Delta-10 and other hemp-derived cannabinoids as Scheduled I controlled substances,\u201d Sgt. Ariel Hernandez told the San Antonio Current<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n

Still, after a yearslong court battle between the hemp industry and the state, delta-9 THC will remain legal, as long as they have less than 0.3% THC by dry weight.<\/p>\n

Delta-9 THC is the primary psychoactive compound in cannabis and is responsible for the intoxicating effects commonly associated with marijuana. Delta-8 THC has similar, less-potent effects.<\/p>\n

In 2021, the Texas Department of State Health Services recognized only delta-9 THC as legal while effectively making all other intoxicating THC variants illegal by classifying them as schedule I drugs. The state’s hemp industry sued over the rule change, setting off a five-year legal battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In May, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state could enforce its ban of all THC variants but delta-9. The new rules kicked in Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, possessing one of the banned THC products could mean up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine for carrying less than one gram.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Antonio Police Department has started enforcing a new Texas law that bans a wide swath of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-395395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395395","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=395395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}