Is possessing smokable hemp flower and concentrate legal in Texas? No one knows
The Texas health department wouldn't say if its newly updated list of highly illegal drugs includes the same hemp flower made legal by state law.
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The Texas health department wouldn't say if its newly updated list of highly illegal drugs includes the same hemp flower made legal by state law.

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