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That's because an effort is underway at the state Legislature to end unregulated production and retail sale of psychoactive ...

Dozens of witnesses warned a Texas Senate panel of what they said were potential unintended economic and health consequences ...

SAN ANTONIO - While the Texas senate debates parting ways with state THC sales, veterans are arguing its benefits. Senate ...

Texas senators are considering Senate Bill 3, which seeks to penalize possession and manufacturing of THC-containing hemp ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — As Florida lawmakers officially kicked off their 2025 legislative session Tuesday, the political ...

The vibrant and largely unregulated cannabis market in Texas may soon face significant changes as lawmakers consider Senate ...

A Texas Senate committee has begun discussing Senate Bill 3, which would ban the sale of consumable THC products. Here's what ...

Central Texas has been in the throes of a drought going back several years. Most of the area is in a severe to extreme ...

Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block the neediest children from access.

The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee is currently hearing two cannabis bills. Katharine Neill Harris, the Alfred C. Glassell III Fellow in Drug Policy at Rice University’s Baker ...

Senate Bill 3 would criminalize the manufacturing and selling of nearly all consumable hemp products that contain THC.