Internet Today turned us on to this odd story in the video above.
The Texas Observer has reported that Texas lawmakers who have been staunchly against legalizing marijuana while several states including Illinois, may have accidentally legalized the substance through a legal loophole if it’s byproduct of hemp. So basically this new law has not decriminalized weed but allows it to be consumed in a very limited capacity in a specific way,
That’s because when lawmakers legalized hemp this session, they unintentionally changed the legal definition of marijuana in a way that makes possession harder to prosecute. Under the new law, which went into effect in June, cannabis with less than 0.3 percent concentration of THC, the psychoactive ingredient that gets you high, is legal hemp, while anything above that threshold is illegal marijuana. Since crime labs in the state can’t currently determine THC concentrations at the minimum threshold, the Texas District and County Attorneys Association predicted that agencies across the state would have to purchase pricey new equipment to keep charging for pot possession. “Until then, there will be no easy way to determine whether the weed your officers seized is illegal marijuana,” the association wrote in a June bulletin to its members.
