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So is hemp OVER in Texas?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Ziggy, May 22, 2025.

  1. jo mama

    jo mama Member

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    cant say mar1juana but we can say

    turd
    ball-sac
    poon
    poon-tang
    fart
    spunk
    assblood
     
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  2. Buck Turgidson

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    Wut?
     
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  3. GOATuve

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    Since you put thought into your post I'll give you the same respect. Might not be today but for sure tomorrow
     
  4. juicystream

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    But the government can change legality at any time.

    Personally, I don't like weed, but alcohol and cigarettes are worse for your health long-term and yet they are legal. If it's came to vote in GA, I'd allow it, but want it banned to smoke in public places.
     
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  5. jo mama

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  6. Newlin

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    Abbott vetoes THC ban. Didn’t see that coming.

    Dan Patrick must be furious.:D
     
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  7. Buck Turgidson

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    How could you not see that coming?
     
  8. ThatBoyNick

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    Business already too big in the state. Abbott wasnt gonna let that go for Patrick's "morals".
     
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  10. edwardc

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    To much money for him not to Veto that stupid bill.
     
  11. leroy

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    By morals you mean large amounts of money given to him by the alcohol lobby...such as $250k from Silver Eagle? Those morals?
     
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  12. DaDakota

    DaDakota Balance wins
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    Abbot Vetoed the bill and called for regulation.

    THC wins.

    DD
     
  13. rockbox

    rockbox Around before clutchcity.com

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    We should regulate it just like every other sane state. Every time I think our governors couldn't get any worse, a new contender comes around. Odds are Patrick will run for governor in the next election.
     
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    GOD help us if he does
     
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  15. leroy

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    Maybe the 2 of them will try to out bats*** crazy each other and it'll help make whomever is running on the Dem side look at least sane. Not that that has mattered in TX politics before...but it's a nice thought.
     
  16. Deckard

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    - cowardly Abbott, afraid of "nose job" Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, is killing 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion-a-year industry that most Texans support.

    Texas to ban retail THC gummies, funnel customers into medical mar1juana monopoly
    By Chris Tomlinson, Columnist July 25, 2025

    Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and his teetotaling allies are going to ban retail THC gummies, drinks and flowers in Texas, killing 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion-a-year industry that most Texans support.

    Gov. Greg Abbott, who vetoed Patrick’s first attempt to ban THC, is folding under pressure from the Texas Taliban. Six weeks after he proposed reasonable regulations that respected Texans’ right to choose whether to use delta-8, delta-9 or THCA products, Abbott says he will ban retail products that contain THC, the active ingredient in cannabis that gets people high.

    “The only hemp product that’s going to be out there is non-intoxicating hemp, which is below 3 milligrams of THC,” Abbott told Impact News. The law defines hemp as a cannabis plant that is low in THC, but otherwise exactly the same as mar1juana.

    Let’s be clear: The vast majority of people who buy hemp-based THC products want to feel something. Intoxication is the point.

    If you use THC to feel good, stock up because Texas Republicans will require anyone who wants these products after Sept. 1 to enter the expensive and bureaucratic medical mar1juana monopoly. As I pointed out in an earlier column, the cannabis civil war is about who gets to profit from THC, not whether it offers real benefits.

    Abbott called the special legislative session to pass common-sense regulations to allow the retail sale of THC products. But Patrick, who rules the Texas Senate with an iron fist, declared last month he would never sign such a law.

    Instead, Patrick had one of his lieutenants reintroduce the old ban, which would wipe out most of the Texas hemp industry.

    “Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Senator Charles Perry are now pushing Senate Bill 5, a reckless repeat that would ban federally legal hemp products, kill small businesses and criminalize responsible consumers, all under the false premise of public safety,” the Texas Hemp Business Council said in a statement.

    Abbott’s flip-flop may be a surprise so soon after his veto, but it is totally in character for the notoriously waffly politician who lives in constant fear of Patrick and his right wing. He routinely changes his positions when Patrick throws a fit, as he did last month.

    Abbott’s proposed regulation of retail THC was in keeping with best practices in other states that have legalized recreational mar1juana, Katharine Neill Harris, an expert on drug policy at Rice University, told me.

    “The whole distinction between hemp and mar1juana was really arbitrary,” she said. “I think that it's important to shift our focus and the way that we talk about this whole topic to cannabis more generally and THC.”

    Abbott proposed age, potency and ingredient limits on THC products along with a strict regulatory structure like the alcoholic beverage industry. Adults would retain easy access to THC products so that they wouldn’t move to illicit markets.

    To protect public health, many states have legalized mar1juana and limited how companies can manipulate THC from hemp plants with a chemical process called isomerization, which critics call synthetic THC, Harris said.

    Texas will need to combine effective law enforcement with reasonable taxes to discourage bad actors. Health officials will need to do more public education, regardless.

    “You can make these things legal, but they have very serious health impacts,” Harris said. “We have some work to do in terms of creating balanced public health messaging and campaigns around using THC and driving, or using THC if you have a history of certain mental illnesses.”

    Harris is doubtful that SB5, which would ban all but two cannabinoids, is workable.

    “To sell with no detectable amounts of any cannabinoids except for two would require chemical manipulation of the plant,” she said. “It doesn't really make sense to me.”

    The medical mar1juana industry could not be more excited about a ban on retail THC sales. Nico Richardson, CEO of the dominant dispensary Texas Originals and a managing director of the venture capital firm behind it, called on lawmakers to reinforce their THC monopoly through the Texas Compassionate Use Program.

    “Without these restrictions, TCUP will continue to be eroded by an unregulated THC industry and our medical program will potentially collapse,” he told a press conference Wednesday. “We are calling on legislators to support TCUP.”

    Medical mar1juana was always designed as a pathway to full legalization. If lawmakers want to do right by Texans, they would legalize and regulate recreational THC. Polls show it's what most Texans want.

    Instead, the Texas Taliban are going to destroy Texans’ jobs, lives and liberty lest someone have more fun than they do.

    https://www.houstonchronicle.com/bu...s-thc-ban-hemp-medical-mar1juana-20782688.php
     
  17. Surfguy

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    There's literally a vape shop in every shopping strip I see in North Texas. Say goodbye.
     
  18. Newlin

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    I guess when Texans drive across the border to go to the casino, they can now make a quick stop to pick up their THC gummies to bring back home. Texas is dumb.
     
  19. Xerobull

    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    It’s got to hurt more for voters to change it.

    Lots of unlubed ass****ery going on by the stacked Texas government.
     

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