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// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did hemp go to Texas? It wanted to get a little high in the Lone Star state.

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Entrance of the Texas Hemp Harvest Festival in 2021
June 2019 meeting between Kathryn Mullen and Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller

Hemp was legalized in Texas in 2019 after earlier prohibition; permitting for growers began in 2020,[1] and the first commercial harvest in 80 years was brought in the same year.[2]

The Texas hemp market is the largest of any U.S. state.[3] A 2025 industry report stated that the Texas hemp industry produced $5.5 billion in direct revenue and $10.3 billion in direct and indirect economic impact.[4] The state permitted 7,253 acres (2,935 ha) of hemp in 2025.[5] The industry employed at least 50,000 people.[6]

Related industry groups include Texas Hemp Industries Association,[2] Texas Hemp Business Council, and Hemp Industry Leaders of Texas. Hemp Industry Leaders of Texas sued the city of Allen, Texas in 2024 asserting that $7 million worth of legal hemp had been illegally seized.[7] Texas Hemp Business Council was a plaintiff in a 2026 case concerning new state regulations on smokeable hemp-derived products legal under the federal 2018 Farm Bill.[8] They won a temporary injunction in April, 2026.[9]

Another lawsuit that claimed that state regulators has assumed a role reserved to the legislature, when they outlawed hemp high in THC-A but low in THC, resulted in an injunction in May 2026.[10][11]

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  1. ↑ "Texas Industrial Hemp Program". Official website. Texas Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2026-04-05.
  2. 1 2 Kevin Curtin (November 5, 2020). "Texas Sees Its First Hemp Harvest in 80 Years". Austin Chronicle.
  3. ↑ Nathan Bernier (April 29, 2026). "Texas' hemp industry fights new regulations that have upended the legal hemp market". Morning Edition. NPR. KUT News. Texas has the biggest hemp market in the country, according to Robin Goldstein. He directs research at the Cannabis Economics Group at UC Davis.
  4. ↑ Jay Maguire (March 11, 2025), "Whitney: Economic Impact of the Texas Hemp Industry", Texas Hemp Reporter
  5. ↑ https://texasagriculture.gov/News-Events/Article/10559/TEXAS-AGRICULTURE-COMMISSIONER-SID-MILLER-SETS-THE-RECORD-STRAIGHT-ON-TEXAS-HEM
  6. ↑ Stephen Simpson (May 22, 2025). "How Texas' THC ban would upend some retailers". Texas Tribune.
  7. ↑ Stephen Simpson (March 9, 2026). "Texas hemp businesses fear an uptick in police raids after more than 15 in the last two years". Texas Tribune.
  8. ↑ Vincent Martorano (April 8, 2026). "Texas hemp groups suing state for new hemp rules". CBS Austin.
  9. ↑ Stephen Simpson (April 10, 2026). "Judge rules to temporarily block Texas' smokeable hemp ban". Texas Tribune.
  10. ↑ Nathan Bernier (May 1, 2026). "Court order allows smokable hemp to stay on shelves in Texas". Austin: KUT-FM.
  11. ↑ Adam Schwager (April 28, 2026). "Hemp industry in court to argue for an extended pause on intoxicating hemp ban". Austin: KXAN-TV. Previously, hemp was defined as a cannabis plant with less than 0.3% total THC...[but] Tetrahydrocannabinol Acid (THCA) could legally be found at any limit. When the THCA is exposed to heat (like being smoked), it decarboxylates — turning about 88% of the THCA into THC.
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