Gov. Greg Abbott’s last veto of the night Sunday was one of the most anticipated this year. Shortly before the midnight deadline, he struck down Senate Bill 3, which would have completely banned Texas sales of consumable hemp-based products containing THC, the psychoactive compound in cannabis.
“I was just exuberant,” said Dustin Goss, manager of World of Smoke & Vape in Fort Worth. “I just got happy. It was just an amazing thing to hear.”
More than 8,000 THC-related stores have opened across the state since 2019 after a federal farm bill legalized selling consumable hemp. The bill also created a loophole for other hemp-derived strains of THC — including Delta-8 — that produce the “high” associated with marijuana…