Wyatt Purp, a cannabis shop in Denton, has been selling hemp-derived products since October 2024. Like many other businesses, they’ve also had to navigate changing laws and regulations around the future of smokeable hemp over the last few months.
Dustin Ragon, CFO and co-founder of Wyatt Purp, says the current legal battle playing out in Texas came as a surprise.
“We thought we were good to go and we had discovered the American Dream,” he said. “Now they’re trying to rip it away from us.”
Texas farmers have been able to legally grow hemp since 2018. Now, the hemp industry has exploded to become one of the biggest in the country. Ragon said he thinks the state wants a piece of that success…