The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved forward Tuesday with its efforts to regulate the sale of consumable hemp products as questions swirled around the future of the industry as a result of federal restrictions on the products approved by Congress last week.

A provision of the funding bill for the U.S. Department of Agriculture that ended the longest government shutdown on record also undid a provision of the 2018 farm bill that first allowed Texas' $8 billion hemp industry to thrive.

The funding bill bans the sale of hemp-derived products with more than 0.4 milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the psychoactive element also found in marijuana. That provision, which criminalizes almost all consumable hemp products sold across the country, will put Texas' law in direct confl

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