Editor's Note: The video above is from KXAN's newscast on Sept. 22, 2025

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Thirteen days after Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order requiring state agencies to take steps to ban THC sales to minors, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) created an emergency rule to ban sales to those under 21.

The rule — adopted unanimously at the TABC Commission meeting Tuesday morning — would cancel the license of a TABC licensee who "sells, offers to sell, serves, or delivers a consumable hemp product to a minor." The regulation carves out exceptions for retailers who "reasonably" believed the customer was not a minor, and the minor lied about their age.

In addition, TABC adopted a rule preventing sale of consumable hemp to anyone who fails to provide a "valid, unexpir

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