A spending deal to reopen the federal government includes language that would severely restrict the hemp-derived THC products that can be legally sold in Texas.

U.S. Rep. Jimmy Patronis is defending the continuing resolution to open the government, which includes the hemp language, as a response to an old problem regarding psychoactive hemp legalized in the 2018 Farm Bill.

Colorado, long criticized for being too restrictive, suddenly looks less like an outlier and more like a preview of where the rest of the country is headed.

GOP political operative Roger Stone says President Donald Trump was effectively “forced” by Republican lawmakers to sign a spending bill that included a ban on hemp products containing THC. Stone—who blasted GOP legislators in a blog post last week over the inclusion of the hemp provisions in an appropriations package Trump signed into law—says he

Part of the Senate-passed government funding bill will see many THC-infused products banned, by tightening legislation in the 2018 Farm Bill.

The federal restrictions mirror a statewide ban that the Texas Legislature passed earlier this year but Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed.

President Donald Trump signed a spending deal this week that includes a ban on nearly all THC products, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the Texas hemp industry, which had narrowly staved off a state ban earlier this year.

In the government shutdown deal, Congress closed a loophole that allowed a Delta-8 THC market to explode in Indiana. What now?