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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    89·
    21 days ago

    This is your daily reminder that Republicans are NOT in favor of less government control over peoples’ lives. They just need the right people to be hurt and controlled.

    • Women
    • “the gays”
    • PoC
    • Those dirty stoners
  • Nougat@fedia.io
    32·
    21 days ago

    I thought that banning guns THC would just make it so that only criminals had guns THC.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
    24·
    21 days ago

    Fine give up all that tax revenue, other states have been rolling in the funds. And because court and jail fees makes so much more money 🙄

    Can we kick out Texas from the US now?

      • The Pantser@lemmy.world
        161·
        21 days ago

        Michigan made almost $300 million last year just on weed, and this year is looking even higher. Texas has a population 3x that of MI. If they legalize it fully and tax like alcohol and tobacco they would be missing out on a lot more. But whatever, we should give Texas to Mexico.

      • compostgoblin@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8·
        21 days ago

        Almost every legal state adds an additional tax for cannabis products. For example, Michigan charges an additional 10% on top of the regular sales tax that applies

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          21 days ago

          But that’s not what we are talking about. We are talking about Delta 8 and other cannibinoid products that were legalized by Republicans with the farm bill. These products became legally available, overnight nationally when that passed.

    • kobra@lemm.ee
      81·
      21 days ago

      I mean, Texas already effectively has a ban on THC. They ONLY allow medical cannabis and it can’t be more than 1% THC by weight.

      Joe Rogan is already flying above the law and I assume he’ll stay there for a while.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        21 days ago

        Texas only has a ban on Δ9-THC (>0.3%). The other, more novel, psychoactive cannabinoids like Δ8-THC, THCA, THCB, THCO, etc. are sold over-the-counter throughout the state. This would ban all of them.

        Also, Texas doesn’t have medical cannabis unfortunately.

      • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        21 days ago

        But won’t bringing them in through state borders be equal to narco trafficking? Thus making it very inconvenient at least, especially for his lower lackeys?

      • Vent@lemm.ee
        4·
        21 days ago

        Texas has vape shops on every corner that sell all of the Delta-# variations in all of the forms (vape, wax, edibles, even flower, etc…), including good ol’ straight-up delta-9 that falls below the federal maximum percent-by-weight requirements.

  • Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    20 days ago

    “Dangerously, retailers exploited the agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of THC to the public and made them easily accessible,”

    …life-threatening…THC

    Citation needed buddy. A little THC doesn’t seem to threaten anyone’s life. Someone can die from an alcohol OD but dying from THC requires another condition or activity that is going on, and thus due to inebriation the death occurs. This is still at a rate far lower than alcohol, a legal substance.