As a Texas CBD store owner our family's business could go under if the provision banning Delta-8 goes into effect. We’ve struggled so hard to financially recover after COVID-19 and this would be another devastating blow to us, and every CBD store owner in Texas. I also use Delta-8 to help with my PTSD which other medications haven’t been able to help with. Please reconsider this bill and keep the Texans that you’ll be effecting in mind.

HB 3948 was heard and voted favorably out of the Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on May 18th. This version would allow a department like the Department of Health and Human Services to determine what is considered to be synthetically derived and if it has an intoxicating effect.

See prohibitive language below that could threaten our industry:

Sec.443.006. TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL CONTENT. (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may not process, manufacture, possess, transport, sell, or purchase a consumable hemp product in this state that:

 (1) has a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis;

 (2) that contains synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinols, as defined by department rule, including synthetically derived acids, isomers, or salts of tetrahydrocannabinol;;

 (3 ) in the form and quantity as packaged for consumer use, is reasonably determined by the department to have an intoxicating effect;

 (4) exceeds any federal limit for tetrahydrocannabinol; or

 (5) consists of dry hemp plant material or another consumable hemp product if additional tetrahydrocannabinol in a concentration greater than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis has been applied to the product ’s surface.

 Let's keep Delta 8 in Texas so we're not taking a step back, and our communities get the help they need.