{"id":400397,"date":"2026-08-07T17:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400397\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:14:27","slug":"what-austin-police-do-with-suspected-thc-products-under-texas-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400397\/","title":{"rendered":"What Austin police do with suspected THC products under Texas rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

As\u00a0new limits on which THC products<\/a> Texans can legally buy took effect last week, here is how Austin-area law enforcement agencies search for, seize and test controlled substances such as marijuana and other\u00a0cannabinoids.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new restrictions officially ban products containing cannabinoids such as delta-8 THC, delta-10 THC and THCP<\/a>, and increase criminal penalties for possession of such substances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An Austin Police Department spokesperson said when officers can identify marijuana as illegal based on a person’s admission or packaging indicating the makeup of a substance, they enforce applicable laws and make any applicable arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When officers can’t identify the substance, the Police Department\u00a0will take it in as evidence and send it to the agency’s laboratory for testing. Notably, the lab can’t determine the type of cannabinoid, such as delta-8 or delta-9, but can determine the THC concentration, including whether it is more than the legal threshold, 0.3%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Travis County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson similarly told the American-Statesman that the agency has test kits that allow deputies to identify whether the substance exceeds the legal limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Testing timelines can vary depending on the case and workload, but the Police Department said results typically come within a few days to a few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And for those in custody involved in these cases, whether they remain in Police Department custody depends on whether they face additional offenses, the bond determination and court proceedings. These factors can range widely, case by case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Notably, Austin police patrol officers do not have field test kits for marijuana. If there are questions regarding the type or makeup of a suspected marijuana or cannabinoid product, they are likely to take the substance in as evidence and send it to the lab.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As\u00a0new limits on which THC products Texans can legally buy took effect last week, here is how Austin-area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-400397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400397","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=400397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}