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Texas Supreme Court upholds ban on making smokable hemp products Due to the decision, two businesses are required to relocate their smokable hemp division from Dallas to an Oklahoma facility. Texas's AUSTIN (CN) — The Texas Supreme Court declared on Friday that there is no vested right to engage in this line of business because Texas' prohibition on the production of smokable hemp products is consistent with the state's lengthy history of regulating cannabis. Hemp has a long history in America dating back to the Founders. At his grounds in Mount Vernon, Virginia, George Washington raised vast quantities of it and repaired his fishing nets with its fibres. From it, colonists produced a wide range of commodities, including rope, clothes, and ship sails. But in the 20th century, the federal government and American states implemented laws outlawing the use of marijuana in an effort to combat its rising popularity. Marijuana is made up of the flowers of hemp plants that contain ...