Texas Hemp Regulations Tighten, Businesses Face Cuts

0:00It's March 26th. This is Dallas News Today, AI-powered stories from your city. New Texas Hemp Regulations kicking on March 31st, tightening controls without an outright ban. They require child-resistant packaging, clearer labels, extra testing, and proof-of-age checks for buyers under 21. The big shift redefines legal THC levels to include compounds like THCA that turn active when heated. If total THC or THCA hits over 0.3 percent at any stage, products get pulled from shelves. Hemp flower and pre-rolls, staples and many stores often exceed them mark now. Business owners face steep hits with some losing over half their stock. Small shops, especially in rural areas, worry about crushing paperwork, batch tracking, and testing costs that could force them to shut down. These rules build on Texas legalizing Hemp back in 2019, drawing a firm relying after years of industry workarounds around Delta 9, THC limits. Hemp advocates

1:03call it a business killer and are gearing up for core fights to block it. The changes roll out quietly through stay rules, reshaping an entire market overnight and sparking debates over Hemp's future in Texas.