Highway to Hemp: How Texas Accidentally Legalized Weed
Texas didn't mean to legalize weed... but it kind of did.
Thanks to a loophole in the 2018 Farm Bill, Texas accidentally created one of the country's biggest hemp and THC markets. Smoke shops exploded, THC drinks became the new happy hour, and billions of dollars poured into an industry hiding in plain sight. Then, almost overnight, the state decided it wanted to put the genie back in the bottle.
This week, Chibbi and Rooster unpack how we got here, why Delta-8 became a felony while some Delta-9 products remain legal, whether prohibition ever actually works, and what this whole mess says…
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