Senate Bill 254 originally intended to limit the amount of Delta-9 in products, but an amendment on the Senate floor would ban all drinks with THC.

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

Texas senators are considering Senate Bill 3, which seeks to penalize possession and manufacturing of THC-containing hemp products, with implications for the state's economy and existing businesses.

Adopted and then approved 7-2 by the state Senate's Licensing and Occupations Committee, Senate Bill 202 would ban the sale of hemp-derived beverages, those that contain CBD and/or THC, until the middle of 2026 while the state finds ways to study, understand and regulate products in the same way it does with beer and liquor.

There is little doubt that a ban will sail through the Senate. But its prospects are far less certain in the House.

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

That's because an effort is underway at the state Legislature to end unregulated production and retail sale of psychoactive forms of hemp, even as the state's highly restrictive medical marijuana program,

What they’re all screaming about is, ‘We want regulation, but we want it the way we want it.'” By Jasper Scherer, The Texas Tribune Six years after Texas lawmakers inadvertently triggered the state’s booming consumable hemp market,