AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Less than an hour before Texas Senate Bill 3 — a proposed THC ban — would’ve passed into law unsigned, Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed it. The eleventh hour action was accompanied by a call for a special session starting on July 21 to strongly regulate hemp, which Abbott says Texas “must do immediately.”

Texas Governor Greg Abbott's last-minute veto of a controversial THC ban triggered an immediate reaction from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and the state's booming hemp industry.