Posted on 06/24/2025 8:37:23 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful head of the Texas Senate, sharply rebuked Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday for vetoing his top legislative priority — a ban on all THC products — and dug in his heels against the governor’s call for lawmakers to instead place firmer regulations on the hemp industry.
In vetoing Senate Bill 3 just before midnight Sunday, Abbott argued that the measure would have faced “valid constitutional challenges” that would have kept it tied up in court for years. He called the Legislature back to Austin for a special session next month to pass stricter rules for products that contain tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive compound in marijuana known as THC that SB 3 sought to ban.
In a defiant news conference Monday, Patrick refused to cede any ground on his months-long demand for a full prohibition of the substance. He accused Abbott of wanting to “legalize marijuana” by regulating hemp products, claimed that the governor had misled him into believing that he would sign SB 3 into law and lambasted him for failing to weigh in on the issue during the session before vetoing it just minutes before the deadline to do so.
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I think Abbott was correct to veto the bill and improve it.
Patrick and his lackey Mark Davis on KSKY 660 DFW seem like blowhards.
Flame away.
I am very opposed to drugs and drug use.
But the drug war was lost.
Worse, what was created to fight it are laws like civil forfeiture, a massive internal spy network, insane financial snooping laws, and a pork-and-democrat filled bureaucracy, which are a much bigger threat to our Republic than druggy losers.
The Cinese know more about drug wars than you.
“”I think Abbott was correct to veto the bill and improve it.””
I think he was too. Things are bad enough in Texas thanks to the OBiden regime. The last thing Texas needs is policies and laws that will “fundamentally transform” Texas into another Colorado S-hole of drug-induced depravity.
If that sounds too prudish, in my younger years I partook of MJ and a few other ‘mood enhancers’... but that was then and things were very different back then. The way the culture is now, it would be a devastating blow to allow such drugs to be freely available to the younger generation.
Gov Abbott ordered a 30 day special session of the Texas Legislature starting July 21 for this bill (SB 3) and 5 other bills:
SB 648: Relating to recording requirements for certain instruments concerning real property
SB 1253: Relating to impact and production fees for certain water projects and to the regulation of certain wells; authorizing a fee.
SB 1278: Relating to an affirmative defense to prosecution for victims of trafficking of persons or compelling prostitution.
SB 1758: Relating to the operation of a cement kiln and the production of aggregates near a semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility.
SB 2878: Relating to the operation and administration of and practices and procedures related to proceedings in the judicial branch of state government.
I know America has waged a war on some drugs and hasn't won it even after 60 odd years.
Sounds like Democrats have been in charge of it.
Ah, you were already there with the inevitable rebuttal to buffoonery.
It was the right choice.
1. Wouldn’t really stop usage, just chase it underground.
2. Would have caused major economic pain
3. May have given the House and Senate to the Dems.
4. Government overreach
Ya, how that making drugs illegal working out after 90 years ? Just ask’in ……
I've been listening to local talk show host Michael Berry talking about this for weeks, if not months.
Here's the story behind the story.
- This bill was sponsored by Lt. Governor Dan Patrick. It was originally publicized as keeping the THC products away from children, but during a heated press conference asking why it included adults, too, Patrick blurted out that "We want to keep it from adults, too! Why would you want to take this! It will kill you!"
- Gov. Greg Abbott waited until the last day to veto the bill because Texas doesn't have a "pocket veto" like the federal Congress does. The Texas state legislature passed this bill and sent it to Abbott and then immediately recessed sine die. If Abbott didn't sign it, it would still become law. He vetoed it and said he would call for a special session of the legislature in September to take this up again as a regulation that keeps THC products from people under 18 years of age, rather than it being an outright ban.
Abbott also said that the law as is would not have survived the many lawsuits that would have followed its adoption into law.
- Berry said that this bill was one of those "not what it purports to be" bills. This bill was being heavily pushed by the beer and alcohol lobby in Texas because the THC industry was eating into their sales.
Furthermore, Patrick's chief political advisor Allen Blakemore is also a lobbyist in Austin representing the beer and alcohol industry. The beer and alcohol lobby, through Blakemore, was pushing the THC ban through Patrick as President of the Texas Senate. This is why Patrick was so insistent in getting this bill passed.
This bill wasn't necessarily about keeping THC away from children, it was about protecting the liquor industry in Texas. Abbott vetoed the bill and is calling for a special session of the legislature to pass a tighter regulation keeping THC products away from children.
-PJ
Patrick made the point that Abbott’s idea of regulating these product can only be done if they are legal products. I do not want MJ legalized to become another Colorado. The legislature already passed a law to make low dosage THC products for pain and epilepsy treatment legal and accessible. Abbott is wrong, and I suspect anyone who says otherwise is misinformed or a pothead.
Those dreaded niggling details...
A "crime" against one's self is the same as a crime against another.
THC can be too powerful. It is the active chemical in marijuana but concentrated. Should be banned except for medical use. This nation is too stoned as it is.
Good for Dan!
He’s the man.
There are no illegal drugs, there are only "controlled substances".
As compared to Big Marijuana?
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