If a police officer pulls you over on a Houston freeway and says he smells marijuana in your car, can he search it? In Texas, as of today, the answer is almost certainly yes — and that surprises a lot of people, because hemp has been legal here since 2019 and nobody can tell legal hemp from illegal marijuana by smell. That contradiction is real, and it is worth understanding — but you will find a lot of confident writing online claiming the hemp law killed odor-based car sear