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The enactment of HB 1325 also caused the psychoactive cannabinoid delta-8-THC to become legal when produced from legally cultivated hemp. The Texas Department of State Health Services later classified the drug as an illegal substance in October 2021, [ 35 ] [ 36 ] but a November 2021 injunction from a district court judge prevented the ...
The effects of delta-8 and THCa are strikingly similar to delta-9 THC, the active ingredient in cannabis, or marijuana, which is illegal in Texas. Both delta-8 and THCa are legal under state and ...
In Texas alone, the number of registered retailers of hemp-derived products jumped from 1,948 in 2020 to more than 7,700 active registrations as of May 2024, according to Texas Tribune.
(Legal products that are marketed as delta-9 in Texas are hemp-derived cannabinoids with less than 0.3 percent THC.) The only difference between THCa and delta-9 is the location of a double bond ...
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
Spreading harvested hemp in Kentucky, 1898. Hemp in the United States is a legal crop. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China ...
What is hemp? The Texas Agriculture Code defines "hemp" as "the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds of the plant and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids ...
On December 20, 2018, the 2018 United States farm bill was signed into law, legalizing the cultivation of hemp containing less than 0.3% THC at the federal level. An unintended consequence of the bill was that it also legalized at the federal level the production of delta-8-THC, an isomer of THC with similar psychoactive effects. Use of delta-8 ...