🚨🔥 TEXAS BANS THC VAPES STARTING SEPT. 1 🔥🚨

Описание: Big news out of Texas: come Monday, Sept. 1, it will be illegal to sell any vape containing cannabinoids — including Delta-8, THCA, THC-P, THC-JD, and other hemp-derived compounds.

This all comes from Senate Bill 2024, which lawmakers quietly slipped into a bill originally aimed at banning e-cigs disguised as pens, highlighters, or phones. Now it covers THC vapes, alcohol vapes, kratom, kava, mushroom vapes — and even bans vape products made in China or other “foreign adversary” countries.

👉 Selling or marketing a cannabinoid vape = Class A misdemeanor
👉 Penalty: Up to 1 year in jail + $4,000 fine
👉 Important: The law does not ban possession

💬 Why the ban?
Supporters say vapes are too easy for teens to sneak into schools. During hearings, parents and students testified about kids hitting THC vapes in bathrooms. One mom even blamed them for triggering her son’s cannabis-induced psychosis.

💬 The pushback:
Shops like ATX Organics in Austin argue vapes are a safer, cleaner way to consume cannabinoids, since there’s no smoke or burning. They even made their own cartridges in-house with glass heating coils (to avoid toxins from ceramic or cotton). “Vapes create a freedom,” says GM João Mitchell. “They’re the easiest way to inhale cannabinoids.”

In the days before the ban, shops have been slashing prices and clearing shelves as customers stock up.

👀 The bigger picture:
Texas legalized hemp in 2019, and since then nearly 9,000 businesses and 700+ licensed producers have fueled a booming hemp market. But conservative lawmakers keep pushing back. SB 2024 passed the Senate with just one ‘no’ vote (Sen. Molly Cook, D-Houston, who argued this will criminalize clerks just doing their jobs).

And this might just be the start. Another bill, SB 6, is waiting in the Texas House — one that would ban almost all THC products statewide. Whether Gov. Abbott vetoes it (like he did last time) remains to be seen.

💭 What do you think? Will this kill the legal hemp market in Texas… or just push it underground?