New Braunfels, Texas: High schoolers jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp

In a Central Texas county, high schoolers are jailed on felony charges for vaping what could be legal hemp

When kids walk into the gas station near the high school in this rural stretch north of San Antonio, they come face to face with Texas’ booming market in psychoactive hemp derivatives. Just inside the door, a glass cabinet entices shoppers to a smorgasbord of fruity and doughnut-flavored vape pens dressed in vibrant, shiny packaging. The store, like many across Texas, is promoting its collection of delta-8 and other new strains of purportedly legal tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the mind-altering part of the cannabis plant. Any adult over age 21 can buy the vapes at this Valero. But if the Comal ...

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