The head of the Texas Department of Agriculture is calling for a repeal of a recently enacted federal hemp THC product ban the president signed into law last week, cautioning that thousands of businesses across his state are at risk of shutting down if the policy isn’t reversed before it takes effect next year.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (R) also said he’s hopeful the industry will put enough pressure on Congress to course-correct before that happens, with a regulatory approach to the issue that ensures public health and safety without kneecapping the cannabinoid market.
“We can protect kids and treat adults like adults at the same time. The federal bans [sic] takes our country backwards, destroys jobs, and hurts those who find relief in these products,” he said. “The ban should be repealed.”
The commissioner made the comment in an X post where he also shared an interview with KDFW from Tuesday in which he discussed the hemp ban President Donald Trump signed into law as part of a broader spending bill package. In that interview, though, Miller gave a somewhat contradictory analysis of the policy change.
Miller said initially that “what happened on the federal level is much
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