Texas hemp businesses say in federal lawsuit they were targets of illegal raid

On Dec 18, 2024

A group of Texas hemp businesses and a smoke shop operator have filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Allen, law enforcement agencies and officials, claiming they initiated an illegal raid on hemp stores and unlawful arrests.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the Hemp Industry Leaders of Texas (HILT) and Sabihe Kahn in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, alleges the municipality and police agencies violated the plaintiffs’ Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and 14th Amendment rights in raiding a legal hemp business.

According to court documents, the plaintiffs claim legal hemp products were seized through an “overbroad search warrant” and that a testing lab failed to use updated testing methodologies that altered the concentrates of legal THCA into illegal delta-9, rendering

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