Posted on 07/21/2025 8:08:34 PM PDT by TLI
OK, here we go again. Senator Charles Perry [R] was behind the last debacle that Greg Abbott VETOED because then, as now, this is NOT what the Governor wants, ie. NO BANS. He wants regulation and reporting of testing and more security on retail outlets. So of course here come the purple republicans trying yet again to "git tough" on (no longer a) crime. Forget the 8 Billion in sales that roll over in the communities about 3 times, taxes on the sales, payroll for 53,000 employees which also rolls over in the communities about 3 times as well. Opening a couple of more dispensaries and adding a few meaningless "conditions" to the Officially Allowed List is not going to do anything. Forget the access to crucial therapies for the vets if their condition is not on the Official List of who knows what will be banned at some government level because, well, they said so.
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/Text.aspx?LegSess=891&Bill=SB5
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/891/billtext/html/SB00005I.htm
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/891/analysis/html/SB00005I.htm
Bill Title: Relating to the regulation of certain products derived from hemp
Is this similar to when the lottery was first allowed that the monies would go toward schools thereby lightning the property tax load on the taxpayer?
Forget the 8 Billion in sales that roll over in the communities about 3 times, taxes on the sales, payroll for 53,000 employees which also rolls over in the communities about 3 times as well.
If its all about the $$’s, then legalize all drugs and just watch that economy grow with new dispensaries popping up everywhere!
I looked at flooring made of hemp. It isnt really. Its plywood with a hemp veneer. Which is OK but they should say that.
States as drug dealers.
What could go wrong.
Hint: If you really don’t know, come to NYS.
We’re proof of why ill, ignorant, and impaired is a hat trick for Deep State.
I am no pothead, I have never smoked that crap. Nor MIA drinker, though in my teens in an early 20s I had quite a lot of beer and liquor. I don’t particularly see much legal or moral difference between getting drunk on some type of alcohol versus getting high on some variant of marijuana. Has someone who believes in freedom of choice, I don’t think it is anybody’s business what anybody else does in the privacy of their own home, so long as it doesn’t involve violence against another human being. If alcohol is legal, then in my view, so should marijuana products be legal. I don’t own a smoke shop, nor will I ever. I don’t even know anybody who does. But there is a tremendous logical fallacy in wanting to outlaw marijuana based products while allowing bars and liquor stores to continue to sell their products.
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