For the past seven years, since the federal government removed hemp from the Controlled Substance Act, far-right politicians in Texas have been fighting the suddenly legal sale of cannabinoids. Legislators toiled in the state capitol; educational budgets were held hostage; and Gov. Greg Abbott called a last-minute audible, halting a sweeping ban. But a series of contested policy changes to statewide departments – without direct oversight by elected officials or the public – were enacted, dealing a powerful blow to a booming Texas industry.
Now, a THC tycoon who has built an empire in San Antonio (and had big plans to take over Texas) is taking on these state leaders and organizing the industry in a challenge against state departments he says are engaging in unbridled agency overreach.
“You don’t leave it up to a department where one man, whoever is in charge of that department, gets to dictate what’s happening,” Kingpin Kush owner and founder William Hunter told MySA, calling for a public vote on the THC issue plaguing Texas…