AUSTIN, Texas - New age restrictions on hemp products with THC are in place and now the Governor is ordering state troopers to enforce those new rules.

The DPS crackdown on hemp comes as troopers continue to patrol the border and are being used for a special criminal task force in Houston.

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The plan is to eventually have checks on most hemp products done by the Texas Department of State Health Services, but now, Texas DPS troopers are being called in to fill a manpower gap.

"We know that we came to a point of needing this kind of action because the regulatory agencies haven't set up the infrastructure necessary to hold bad actors accountable," Texas Cannabis Policy Center Director Heather Fazio said.

The extra work comes as troopers are being assigned new immigration duti

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