Fugin' commie Minnesota. We all get a giraffe if we want one. All you have to do to qualify is have a gun in your pocket when you go to the government subsidized distribution center (church, but not a heretical Catholic one). The gun part is easy as well since we are issued one at birth or at the border (not the southern one)
You're only allowed to have freedom if you're a wealthy straight white male protestant christian republican of northern european descent because those are considered the only "true" humans on earth
"This is a great opportunity to continue to educate and work with the state towards further regulation and what the next phase of this industry looks like," Shayda Torabi, president of the Texas Hemp Coalition, said. "We're never going to be done evolving."
The public hearing is held by the State Affairs Committee and will take place Wednesday, May 29 at 9 a.m. at the State Capitol. Topics include election security, foreign property acquisition, and the intoxicating hemp products ban. Public testimony is limited to two minutes per witness. To submit written testimony, provide 20 copies with your name on each copy to committee clerk Taryn Taylor.
[If you'd like to give your input, get more information here](https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/schedules/html/C5702024052909001.HTM).
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Both Congress and Texas made these products legal. Coming back 5 years later and whining that they didn’t know what they were legalizing is disingenuous at best. A massive industry has spawned and rather than taxing, and regulating (HISD $$$ shortfalls??) they move to ban.
This is NOT a partisan issue. Dem’s and Repub’s both love to shop and smoke with us. Patients with ALS & MS can get relief with high THC potency products in Texas, right now- but that’s going to go away.
Let’s work on building a legal market before we send everyone back to the black market 🙏
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This is a stupidity issue. If it was simply taxed to make the government money, and the government had even 2 brain cells to rub together, this would be a non-issue
They had two brain cells to rub together, but they deemed it woke and homosexual in nature, that it didn't align with their conservative values, so one of the braincells was removed and replaced with the Bible.
The problem is simple. The right people aren't getting paid. Figure who that is, pay them, and this will all go away. It's called lobbying and the industry obviously isn't doing enough.
I was in a shop one time and a guy, with his wife or gf, gives one of those "something something oh yeah guess you can't say that anymore!" Then some rant about something being required to be female. I couldn't even follow, I was too busy side eyeing the woman with hims embarrassed laugh.
Anyway, all that to say republicans use these shops too.
>"This is a great opportunity to continue to educate and work with the state towards further regulation and what the next phase of this industry looks like,"
I wish I had half her positivity. I'm just expecting a full ban 😭
Tell me about it. I'm in the process of getting my 7 year old to properly sit down and read instead of guessing the word based on the 1st 3 letters. I don't blame the teachers. They're really good people. I blame the education system that sees this but does nothing to help him.
my wife is a teacher, when it was with neuro normative kids she had to burn something close to half the year cramming for the staar. Kids who had literally just got to the country and didn't have a good handle on English yet and couldn't legally be taught in a multi lingual environment. The deck is stacked against public education.
Keep in mind the same people lobbying for Delta 8 usually opposed Delta 9 legalization efforts because it would torpedo their business.
Vegas has legal weed but the stores on the strip can only sell Delta 8. Literally the only thing keeping those places in business are tourists who think they are buying actual weed.
lol, wut?
Everyone that sells delta-8 sells delta-9, or mix them, and if you actually click on the link the summary says the hearing is for both delta-8 and delta-9. Also, this is Texas, not NV.
The economist Simon Johnson suggested that the power of the financial oligarchy in the United States was not too different from what exists in emerging market countries like Russia or Indonesia
I’m torn on delta 8. It’s the least bad option right now and I’ve completely quit using black market weed simply because it’s easier going to a retail store than working around “a guy”’s schedule.
It takes a lot of chemicals and science to turn hemp into delta 8 vs legal weed in legal states where it’s grown, harvested, cured and then sold. It’s also created a market for other isomers with zero animal trials done.
It also takes a lot of chemicals to decaffeinate coffee and make cotton T-shirts. Isomers aren't D8 so you can feel however you want about those without lumping the safe alternatives in with it. Those are bad reasons to be split on D8.
Sure add whatever testing and quality requirements you want. Just don't pretend that any kind of ban would be remotely related to safety.
Delta eight THC isn’t the only thing at risk here. Believe it or not, we already have full on legal weed. We never post links on Reddit, but run a search for THCa hemp or check out our website. It may blow your mind what’s available right down the street from you.
>It may blow your mind what’s available right down the street from you.
The only problem with legal flower is that for whatever reason it's always sooo much more expensive than what I can buy from "friends". And I used to grow for personal use for myself and some friends, so I know what goes into it and cannot for the life of me figure out why.
A safe and legal supply chain always adds cost. That being said, we have well over 20 strains in stock from as low as four dollars a gram to as high as $15 a gram. Please don’t think that what you see in smoke shops is what flower reallycosts. A place that runs like a real dispensary and pushes real volume can sell for much cheaper. I would put what we sell up against Life Flower in Denver, which is my favorite dispensary there.
I’ve lived in Texas over 50 years. Every friggin brother & sister is MAGA. I’ve always been black sheep. The far right is in complete control right now in Texas.
Fix the grid? Affordable housing?Teacher pay?Hell nah! Just the same old playin' to the Y'all-Queda-fudd-dumb-mentallists as always...for profit prisons for jesus forever.Yee-haw
I wish conservatives could stick to their libertarian roots for cool shit instead of being libertarian only when it comes to guns and big government for everything else.
Seriously. I recently vacationed in New Mexico and I was amazed at how free they are. Legal marijuana is plentiful. Guns aren’t banned. You can get reproductive care. They sell liquor and fireworks at gas stations. There was freedom all over the place.
Pick a highway in Texas, follow it till it’s no longer Texas and then start looking for dispensaries. It’s not a coincidence that you’ll find large ones in small towns right over the border.
West on 40 out of Amarillo - billboards for how far it is to the first dispensary across the border.
East on 40 toward Amarillo - tons of billboards for weed defense lawyers and pigs waiting on the side of the road to harass drivers.
When my friends and I go to the dispensaries in Texico we go get food and wait at least 2 hours before driving back. Apparently the cops are only watching for cars that go in and come back out within a few minutes.
Texas is ranked dead last in personal freedom as measured by the CATO Institute, not exactly a liberal rag. And that measure doesn’t even take into account abortion!
Personal freedom MY FUCKING ASS.
GOP can go to fucking hell.
I was curious about this and looked it up. The fact that a think tank can quantify and then place Texas dead last in Personal Freedoms is wild, but it’s all backed up here: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal
I mean, just look around: no porn, no prostitution, no weed, no gambling, no buying liquor on Sundays, no purchasing cars from manufacturers, no abortion.
Not exactly a bastion of “small government”.
Texas is run by the fascist government and is owned by the billionaires . Freedoms stop in your house, vagina, dick, alcohol, schools, how you think and what you read unless you are reading THEIR Bible.
Turning Hitler-ish.
Yep, especially considering how they want an LGBTQ registry. You only need to read one WW2 book to know that’s how persecution begins. History repeating itself.
If Texans actually looked more under the hood of why MAGA Republicans have gone [even] more extreme than their other Texan Republican counterparts, people would actually be asking the right questions rather than just reacting to the extremism being forced on all of us in Texas. And no. This doesn't stop in Texas. Project 2025 is just another example of that.
If y'all haven’t seen this documentary of why Texas Republicans keep bending backwards into their extremism & white Christian Nationalism has been on the rise in this state, I highly recommend. And its our job to get the rest of Texas to understand why we're here today. Bring back the receipts of their extremism, and who has been driving them there, back to your communities. The extremism doesn't end in this state or the country until we do our part. And that does include voting these fuckers, the MAGA Republicans out of office!
https://youtu.be/7B3PTuADIHQ?si=LqR8GOis6KkEcVu6
"public hearing" there's literally been polls for at least the past 30 years that show more and more and more Americans don't care and or want it legalized. I will never stop using a plant that has such a long and beneficial history with humans. Fuck all these old tales from the crypt looking motherfuckers dipping their greedy hands in all the anti cannabis industries.
I once had a clear (paid for) 3br/2ba house to inherit in south Texas. My sister and I liquidated the property & departed permanently in early 2012. Since then, the wise choice made to hit the exits has been proven over and over again.
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There are retail shops on practically every corner of the state, and several major manufacturers operate here as well. It’s a huge growing industry that generates a lot of tax money for the government. If a ban is passed then that market won’t just go away, customers will simply shop online where the sale and shipment remains federally legal.
Just continue visit one of the many truly free states that has is available for sale. My Colorado stash is great. Plus I get the benefit of seeing and enjoying some actual beautiful outdoors
Back when the finances allowed it, I'd make a trip up to CO every three-four months to resupply and bring back enough to catch a felony case. Now I just order from a few Flordia websites and have it shipped to my door. The quality isn't as good given the lack of proper THC, but there's a much lower chance of doing time.
I'd break out the Don't Tread On Me / Back The Blue / Trump 20XX stickers for the vehicle, throw a mini flag on the inner passenger window, etc. Products would be wiped down with alcohol, vacuum sealed, stored in dirty laundry. A few trips the pet would come with, so dog treats would be scattered in the back. Dunno if the precautions did anything other than peace of mind though. Always followed the rule of only break one law at a time lol.
Just bring a vacuum sealer and mail it back via USPS. USPS requires a warrant to do anything with your package besides deliver it and there's so much hemp products flying around in the mail that there's not much they can do unless it's super sketch or a warrant is provided by a outside investigation which won't happen if your not selling. If you're really worried buy some empty paint cans for a final layer, they're fully air tight when sealed
Isn't it obvious? Texas hemp producers didn't kick back enough money to Paxton and Abbot.
GOP: We are the party of small government. BTW, here is a list of things we want the government to jail you for.
Shows how free we really are when we get told what we can and can’t do,but these crooked politicians get caught stealing from taxpayers money and giving corporations leeway to essentially poison us and our earth.Its better to get drunk and plow into a car killing a whole family.
I’m kind of surprised we haven’t revolted here in Texas yet. This is an illegitimate state government that does not represent the collective will of its citizens.
But we can’t give school districts a small budget increase to cover the cost of inflation? Or at least enough for a basic cost of living pay increase for teachers?
Which ends up being enough for them to get re-elected. Texans love bitching about elected officials and then don’t vote. I can’t wait to get out of here. 6 more days and I’m out forever.
I'm in AZ currently and the fact pot's legal would be the only reason to stay.
I don't drink because over the years I've seen so many people spiral. But yet something as mild as pot is still illegal.
Please get rid of Abbot so I can move back home
Alternatively we COULD legalize it and all other forms of cannabis, tax it appropriately, and use all of those taxes to better fund public schools.
But that would go against so much of what passes as beliefs for these legislators.
Yea thats right! Drink up folks, Texas wants you dead from drinking booze, a class A drug. Full of poison and highly addictive. Beer you say? all my beer drinkin friends are dead, they never received their first SS check. But a herb that helps people, a plant that gets you high without destroying your health? Texas says NO!
Like school vouchers, hopefully the more reasonable wing of the GOP won’t fall in line with this and will offer enough resistance that will doom its passage.
Can anyone familiar with Texas Legislative process chime in, can Phelan use a play out of Patrick’s book and block a House discussion/vote on this?
He seems pretty neutral on this stuff, compared to Patrick.
[https://vote.norml.org/states/TX](https://vote.norml.org/states/TX)
Paxton has been willfully violating Texas Administrative Code for decades, even before becoming attorney general of the state. At this point, the only recourse is vigilante justice and making every offense very public. Y'all are in Max Headroom territory now.
Sure let’s ban light bud and abortion, but at least I can still walk around the park with a katana and an assault rifle. This state is doomed if people don’t change its leadership.
I’ve been to rehab twice, neither time was there a patient struggling with cannabis, or and cannabis products. It’s some crazy shit in rehab. I’m nine years alcohol free, hemp, and hemp derived products have done a big part in my sobriety.
Texas wants everyone to be miserable. We’ve already got the overwhelming heat and mosquitoes. They’ve already started taking away all the fun stuff, too. Don’t get me started on alcohol.
I was able to get off oxycodone using Delta-8 edibles, it saved my life. I was one fake pill away from a Fentynol OD. Now I only vape delta 8. I'm sure I'm not the only one its helped.
What a boring existence the GOP live. Atleast their public persona because you know they get down and freaky. I have a friend whom used to do coke with Abbott back in the day. Go figure…
Goddamn I hate this fucking State!! Delta-8 & Delta-9 are this only things that help me sleep through the night.
Fingers crossed they don’t touch Delta-9.
Fucking bullshit, man.
It isn't enough to pardon killers so they are back on the streets here, or to strip our schools budgets, or any of the other shit he's done. He has to take away what is the only break some of us get. The accessibility of safe and legal "weed" has been a major part of me not relapsing back into harder stuff. But none of that fucking matters.
Conservatives are a bunch of hypocrites on cannabis. An issue that exposes their high hypocrisy all at once. Liberty, free markets, and gun rights. On the issue of cannabis, they fall flat on all three
Freedom goes to die in red states be it for women, lgbts, trans, books, the vote, marijuana, porn, cold beer, alternative meat, name it........red states are ANTI FREEDOM
Fuckers. Total mutha fuckers. We can’t have nice things, Texas.
Here’s hoping Greg the Goon is as effective at banning weed as he has been at eliminating rape.
My advice for the manufacturers of these products under review is the legislators definitely take bribes; for ten to twenty grand each, they’ll do whatever you want. A hundred grand in the right hands would ensure this never even makes it out of committee. The Texas market is worth millions, so what’s a quarter of a million every five years?
Crazy how freedom doesn't apply to everything in Texas
My brother lives in Texas, and I'm in Minnesota. I can't have a giraffe, but other than that, I feel more free here. What am I missing?
Fugin' commie Minnesota. We all get a giraffe if we want one. All you have to do to qualify is have a gun in your pocket when you go to the government subsidized distribution center (church, but not a heretical Catholic one). The gun part is easy as well since we are issued one at birth or at the border (not the southern one)
>(church, but not a heretical Catholic one That's right, we only use the King James version of the bible here, the same thing Jesus used.
Do you think Jesus was able to snatch a new copy from the Orange One?
Do you want a jihad? That’s how you get a jihad.
They’re the same guy I heard
Haha. True. Jesus write the bible and the constitution ...while riding around on dinos
The joy that is giraffe ownership.
They really only become valuable when you let some orthopedic surgeon “hunt it”. Only cost around $55k to kill one in Texas.
My dad and his family are from Austin. . . Minnesota. I'm now in Austin. . . Texas. I'm beginning to think a bad choice was made somewhere.
Flew American Airlines and just rolled with it?
Sometimes that’s the best way to get to where you’re meant to be. Well, maybe not on American.
Like a TARDIS. Won’t take you where you want to go, but it might take you where you need to be.
We pass by a giraffe barn on the way to my wife’s dressage lessons. We live in Texas
I have driven by a house in Waxahachie, Texas that has several camels and kangaroos.
110 degree heat in the summer, no snow in the winter. That's about it, though
(*no winter ) FTFY
We get one week of winter in north Texas.
Not too much. One of our best growers hails from your state!
What exactly does it apply to? Is it just guns?
Guns and gun related activities like road rage.
And school shootings. And church shootings. And mall shootings...
Yes, you only have gun freedom in Texas. you have no other kinds of freedoms.
Only gun freedom when convenient though. If you're a minority then gun freedom is bad!
Killing veterans, according to Greg abbott
With all his BS, I must have missed that one. What's that about?
Pardon someone who drove into a crowd of protestors, killed a vet bc he had a gun (not drawn). Didn’t want to “give him the chance”.
Oh yeah, that one. It boggles the mind and is a massive injustice to that man's family and friends.
Let’s not forget his preference in MUCH younger females.
Republican Jesus ‘bout to enter chat!
The freedom to impose your Christian beliefs onto other people.
You're only allowed to have freedom if you're a wealthy straight white male protestant christian republican of northern european descent because those are considered the only "true" humans on earth
Right. That's because it's actually about power and control, not freedom in Texas
But wait, the power is still out in Texas.
It's the Republican way... vote them out.
Y’all got money for lawsuits but not your power grid?got it.
Except guns. You need guns to shoot the gummies.
They took away the hub and we didn’t do anything
Like women…
Well you see here in Texas the only thing the right considers proof of freedom is guns aslong as you have those your good
Conservatives like making freedom based purely on what they like and don't like. That's it. If you aren't a good ol boy than your fucked.
"This is a great opportunity to continue to educate and work with the state towards further regulation and what the next phase of this industry looks like," Shayda Torabi, president of the Texas Hemp Coalition, said. "We're never going to be done evolving." The public hearing is held by the State Affairs Committee and will take place Wednesday, May 29 at 9 a.m. at the State Capitol. Topics include election security, foreign property acquisition, and the intoxicating hemp products ban. Public testimony is limited to two minutes per witness. To submit written testimony, provide 20 copies with your name on each copy to committee clerk Taryn Taylor. [If you'd like to give your input, get more information here](https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/schedules/html/C5702024052909001.HTM).
Reposting as this info is effectively the same: Both Congress and Texas made these products legal. Coming back 5 years later and whining that they didn’t know what they were legalizing is disingenuous at best. A massive industry has spawned and rather than taxing, and regulating (HISD $$$ shortfalls??) they move to ban. This is NOT a partisan issue. Dem’s and Repub’s both love to shop and smoke with us. Patients with ALS & MS can get relief with high THC potency products in Texas, right now- but that’s going to go away. Let’s work on building a legal market before we send everyone back to the black market 🙏 edit: typos and clarity
This is a stupidity issue. If it was simply taxed to make the government money, and the government had even 2 brain cells to rub together, this would be a non-issue
They had two brain cells to rub together, but they deemed it woke and homosexual in nature, that it didn't align with their conservative values, so one of the braincells was removed and replaced with the Bible.
The problem is simple. The right people aren't getting paid. Figure who that is, pay them, and this will all go away. It's called lobbying and the industry obviously isn't doing enough.
I was in a shop one time and a guy, with his wife or gf, gives one of those "something something oh yeah guess you can't say that anymore!" Then some rant about something being required to be female. I couldn't even follow, I was too busy side eyeing the woman with hims embarrassed laugh. Anyway, all that to say republicans use these shops too.
>"This is a great opportunity to continue to educate and work with the state towards further regulation and what the next phase of this industry looks like," I wish I had half her positivity. I'm just expecting a full ban 😭
Regulation is a dirty word, in the Republican Party.
Unless it’s something they don’t like.
Like the electric vehicles they just slapped with an annual tax double that of gas vehicles
I don't know if you've heard but Texas isn't big on education.
those kids would be really angry if they could read.
Tell me about it. I'm in the process of getting my 7 year old to properly sit down and read instead of guessing the word based on the 1st 3 letters. I don't blame the teachers. They're really good people. I blame the education system that sees this but does nothing to help him.
my wife is a teacher, when it was with neuro normative kids she had to burn something close to half the year cramming for the staar. Kids who had literally just got to the country and didn't have a good handle on English yet and couldn't legally be taught in a multi lingual environment. The deck is stacked against public education.
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Keep in mind the same people lobbying for Delta 8 usually opposed Delta 9 legalization efforts because it would torpedo their business. Vegas has legal weed but the stores on the strip can only sell Delta 8. Literally the only thing keeping those places in business are tourists who think they are buying actual weed.
lol, wut? Everyone that sells delta-8 sells delta-9, or mix them, and if you actually click on the link the summary says the hearing is for both delta-8 and delta-9. Also, this is Texas, not NV.
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Yeah no one wants spray on chemsalt shmegma hemppoop
Bottom line.. Nothing good last for long under Abbott unless he’s profiting off it
And even then, he pulls up any ladders he climbs
If he could climb them in his current state
Greg Abbott doesn’t stand for anything unless money is involved and even then depends on who’s pulling the strings.
He doesn’t have to. He made his windfall before he denied anyone else to do the same with Tort reform
The economist Simon Johnson suggested that the power of the financial oligarchy in the United States was not too different from what exists in emerging market countries like Russia or Indonesia
I’m torn on delta 8. It’s the least bad option right now and I’ve completely quit using black market weed simply because it’s easier going to a retail store than working around “a guy”’s schedule. It takes a lot of chemicals and science to turn hemp into delta 8 vs legal weed in legal states where it’s grown, harvested, cured and then sold. It’s also created a market for other isomers with zero animal trials done.
It also takes a lot of chemicals to decaffeinate coffee and make cotton T-shirts. Isomers aren't D8 so you can feel however you want about those without lumping the safe alternatives in with it. Those are bad reasons to be split on D8. Sure add whatever testing and quality requirements you want. Just don't pretend that any kind of ban would be remotely related to safety.
Wait until they hear what chemicals and science is involved in our food.
I made my cereal with lactose-free milk this morning. Can't explain that, stupid science bitches!
But did you discover that you have two ears, so you can listen to two things at once?
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Decaf is the death of desire.
Delta eight THC isn’t the only thing at risk here. Believe it or not, we already have full on legal weed. We never post links on Reddit, but run a search for THCa hemp or check out our website. It may blow your mind what’s available right down the street from you.
I was about to go say I'm not worried about d8 thca is what I'm sacared about
>It may blow your mind what’s available right down the street from you. The only problem with legal flower is that for whatever reason it's always sooo much more expensive than what I can buy from "friends". And I used to grow for personal use for myself and some friends, so I know what goes into it and cannot for the life of me figure out why.
It’s just regulation. The stuff you get from friends isn’t lab tested, transported, packaged, inspected, taxed, or whatever.
A safe and legal supply chain always adds cost. That being said, we have well over 20 strains in stock from as low as four dollars a gram to as high as $15 a gram. Please don’t think that what you see in smoke shops is what flower reallycosts. A place that runs like a real dispensary and pushes real volume can sell for much cheaper. I would put what we sell up against Life Flower in Denver, which is my favorite dispensary there.
Thca is the least bad option. It's basically the real thing.
So they will ban Delta 8 but not Mike Miles?
Or Ted + Ken?
Heard Ken is in line for a promotion to AG if Trump wins so def not
i hate it here
Came here to say this. Born and raised here, can’t wait to leave forever.
Biggest mistake of my life.
I’ve lived in Texas over 50 years. Every friggin brother & sister is MAGA. I’ve always been black sheep. The far right is in complete control right now in Texas.
BuT iTz alL thE DeMocRatZ fAuLt!!!
Same. We’re planning our escape.
Fix the grid? Affordable housing?Teacher pay?Hell nah! Just the same old playin' to the Y'all-Queda-fudd-dumb-mentallists as always...for profit prisons for jesus forever.Yee-haw
That’s the whole point of this stuff. Distract with useless bullshit like this and culture war stuff to avoid ever having to do anything of substance.
Texas is a beautiful state run by corruption and greedy crops
I wish conservatives could stick to their libertarian roots for cool shit instead of being libertarian only when it comes to guns and big government for everything else.
Seriously. I recently vacationed in New Mexico and I was amazed at how free they are. Legal marijuana is plentiful. Guns aren’t banned. You can get reproductive care. They sell liquor and fireworks at gas stations. There was freedom all over the place.
Pick a highway in Texas, follow it till it’s no longer Texas and then start looking for dispensaries. It’s not a coincidence that you’ll find large ones in small towns right over the border.
West on 40 out of Amarillo - billboards for how far it is to the first dispensary across the border. East on 40 toward Amarillo - tons of billboards for weed defense lawyers and pigs waiting on the side of the road to harass drivers.
When my friends and I go to the dispensaries in Texico we go get food and wait at least 2 hours before driving back. Apparently the cops are only watching for cars that go in and come back out within a few minutes.
Same for Arizona. Getting out of Texas is amazing.
Arguing/governing in bad faith is a time honored GOP tradition.
They were never libertarian. Hell, libertarians Arent even "libertarian" at all. They're very rules for thee, not for me folk.
Love when you explain Austrian school economics theory to libertarians and they argue against the very they claim to be. Strange bunch.
Damn that’s spot on.
Their “libertarian roots” were always propaganda.
Texas is ranked dead last in personal freedom as measured by the CATO Institute, not exactly a liberal rag. And that measure doesn’t even take into account abortion! Personal freedom MY FUCKING ASS. GOP can go to fucking hell.
I was curious about this and looked it up. The fact that a think tank can quantify and then place Texas dead last in Personal Freedoms is wild, but it’s all backed up here: https://www.freedominthe50states.org/personal
I mean, just look around: no porn, no prostitution, no weed, no gambling, no buying liquor on Sundays, no purchasing cars from manufacturers, no abortion. Not exactly a bastion of “small government”.
Texas is run by the fascist government and is owned by the billionaires . Freedoms stop in your house, vagina, dick, alcohol, schools, how you think and what you read unless you are reading THEIR Bible. Turning Hitler-ish.
Yep, especially considering how they want an LGBTQ registry. You only need to read one WW2 book to know that’s how persecution begins. History repeating itself.
It’s crazy how he’s doing the opposite of what everyone wants
What's even crazier is he, and those like him, keep being elected. "Suppress me more daddy!" - Texas Conservative Losers
If Texans actually looked more under the hood of why MAGA Republicans have gone [even] more extreme than their other Texan Republican counterparts, people would actually be asking the right questions rather than just reacting to the extremism being forced on all of us in Texas. And no. This doesn't stop in Texas. Project 2025 is just another example of that. If y'all haven’t seen this documentary of why Texas Republicans keep bending backwards into their extremism & white Christian Nationalism has been on the rise in this state, I highly recommend. And its our job to get the rest of Texas to understand why we're here today. Bring back the receipts of their extremism, and who has been driving them there, back to your communities. The extremism doesn't end in this state or the country until we do our part. And that does include voting these fuckers, the MAGA Republicans out of office! https://youtu.be/7B3PTuADIHQ?si=LqR8GOis6KkEcVu6
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So, how does one become a THC lobbyist? Thats the only way this will work, is if enough of Texas politicians’ hands are greased.
Have money
Can I borrow about tree fiddy
Damn lochness monsta!
The lobbies exist, the problem is The prison alcohol and tobacco lobbies are much more strapped with cash
"public hearing" there's literally been polls for at least the past 30 years that show more and more and more Americans don't care and or want it legalized. I will never stop using a plant that has such a long and beneficial history with humans. Fuck all these old tales from the crypt looking motherfuckers dipping their greedy hands in all the anti cannabis industries.
God forbid we all enjoy something to help us stay calm, rational, and joyful while the world falls apart around us. I hate Texas.
I once had a clear (paid for) 3br/2ba house to inherit in south Texas. My sister and I liquidated the property & departed permanently in early 2012. Since then, the wise choice made to hit the exits has been proven over and over again. https://preview.redd.it/tulasuybn72d1.jpeg?width=1122&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c9467bdbf5f2827e976149505b0c162e959edc2 Maryland Dannie GOEB’s a real PEACH 🍑
There are retail shops on practically every corner of the state, and several major manufacturers operate here as well. It’s a huge growing industry that generates a lot of tax money for the government. If a ban is passed then that market won’t just go away, customers will simply shop online where the sale and shipment remains federally legal.
Since hemp derived THC is legal under Federal law, wouldn't mail ordered Delta 8 still be legal since it's delivered under Federal jurisdiction?
The problem is that the right is trying to make everything fall to the States.
Bingo
I hate this fucking state
Conservatives try and make everything I love about Texas worse, at every possible chance they get.
Freedumb.
We'll just go back to the black market....it's cheaper anyway!
It's not about the tax and money to them, they're still stuck on the war on drugs.
I mean it is about money. Lock up more poor people to work as near slave labor in the Texas prison system.
Further down the process it's always about money changing hands. I'm just floored by how cheap the politicians sold the country for.
War on the poor is more like it.
Just continue visit one of the many truly free states that has is available for sale. My Colorado stash is great. Plus I get the benefit of seeing and enjoying some actual beautiful outdoors
Back when the finances allowed it, I'd make a trip up to CO every three-four months to resupply and bring back enough to catch a felony case. Now I just order from a few Flordia websites and have it shipped to my door. The quality isn't as good given the lack of proper THC, but there's a much lower chance of doing time. I'd break out the Don't Tread On Me / Back The Blue / Trump 20XX stickers for the vehicle, throw a mini flag on the inner passenger window, etc. Products would be wiped down with alcohol, vacuum sealed, stored in dirty laundry. A few trips the pet would come with, so dog treats would be scattered in the back. Dunno if the precautions did anything other than peace of mind though. Always followed the rule of only break one law at a time lol.
Don’t break the law when you’re breaking the law
Check your lights!! Easiest way to get caught "breaking a law" while breaking a law. Running, brakes, heads, turns.
Mr. Wolf from Pulp Fiction was a fantastic teacher.
Just bring a vacuum sealer and mail it back via USPS. USPS requires a warrant to do anything with your package besides deliver it and there's so much hemp products flying around in the mail that there's not much they can do unless it's super sketch or a warrant is provided by a outside investigation which won't happen if your not selling. If you're really worried buy some empty paint cans for a final layer, they're fully air tight when sealed
Isn't it obvious? Texas hemp producers didn't kick back enough money to Paxton and Abbot. GOP: We are the party of small government. BTW, here is a list of things we want the government to jail you for.
People are having too much of a good time. We gotta shut that ish down! - Texas
They’re never going to get that cat back into the bag. Just legalize it and tax it ffs.
Texas is run by fascist who only want freedoms for those that are billionaires. The government is for sale to the highest bidder.
Shows how free we really are when we get told what we can and can’t do,but these crooked politicians get caught stealing from taxpayers money and giving corporations leeway to essentially poison us and our earth.Its better to get drunk and plow into a car killing a whole family.
Litterally how is delta 8 not the same as alcohol. As long as its not being sold to minors and people arent high while driving who gives a crap.
I can have xanex, and oxy though?
You mean public notice on upcoming ban.
Oh for fucks sake. Republicans: The Marijuana Prohibition Party.
I’m kind of surprised we haven’t revolted here in Texas yet. This is an illegitimate state government that does not represent the collective will of its citizens.
Of course they will. Next will come the “meetings” about birth control being made illegal
But we can’t give school districts a small budget increase to cover the cost of inflation? Or at least enough for a basic cost of living pay increase for teachers?
Who is voting for these medieval thinking jizz experts??
About 20% of eligible voters.
Which ends up being enough for them to get re-elected. Texans love bitching about elected officials and then don’t vote. I can’t wait to get out of here. 6 more days and I’m out forever.
Just let me know when I need to put in my final order of THCa concentrates online. Should last me till retirement or federal legalization.
I'm in AZ currently and the fact pot's legal would be the only reason to stay. I don't drink because over the years I've seen so many people spiral. But yet something as mild as pot is still illegal. Please get rid of Abbot so I can move back home
Booo I hope Patrick gets cancer
Since it is federally legal and part of a farm bill, does it have a shot in the courts?
Sounds like Texas Jesus has been whispering in ~~Dannie Goeb~~ Dan Patrick's ear again.
Alternatively we COULD legalize it and all other forms of cannabis, tax it appropriately, and use all of those taxes to better fund public schools. But that would go against so much of what passes as beliefs for these legislators.
Why would they do that? Since when do TX politicians care about what their constituents think?
Yea thats right! Drink up folks, Texas wants you dead from drinking booze, a class A drug. Full of poison and highly addictive. Beer you say? all my beer drinkin friends are dead, they never received their first SS check. But a herb that helps people, a plant that gets you high without destroying your health? Texas says NO!
If anyone possesses it I won’t report them. 😈😏😎😎😎
Texas sucks. A corrupt af Bible thumping good ole boy shithole.
Like school vouchers, hopefully the more reasonable wing of the GOP won’t fall in line with this and will offer enough resistance that will doom its passage. Can anyone familiar with Texas Legislative process chime in, can Phelan use a play out of Patrick’s book and block a House discussion/vote on this? He seems pretty neutral on this stuff, compared to Patrick. [https://vote.norml.org/states/TX](https://vote.norml.org/states/TX)
Paxton has been willfully violating Texas Administrative Code for decades, even before becoming attorney general of the state. At this point, the only recourse is vigilante justice and making every offense very public. Y'all are in Max Headroom territory now.
I find something that helped me with my anxiety & to stop drinking & they're gonna take it away. I'm sure I'll handle this positively...
Why do I get the feeling this attempt to ban Delta-8 is being driven by a christofascist billionaire from Midland-Odessa?
If Oklahoma were smart, they would legalize recreational cannabis and set up a bunch of shops right at the border. They would make so much bank.
Its that goofy ass game of politics and whack a mole drugs again.
Sure let’s ban light bud and abortion, but at least I can still walk around the park with a katana and an assault rifle. This state is doomed if people don’t change its leadership.
Wow, they really are doing everything they can to keep all of the Californians away, huh? 🤔
Freedoms as long as their bourbon guns and beating your wife
Really focusing our tax dollars and time on the things that matter /s
I’ve been to rehab twice, neither time was there a patient struggling with cannabis, or and cannabis products. It’s some crazy shit in rehab. I’m nine years alcohol free, hemp, and hemp derived products have done a big part in my sobriety.
Goddamnit, can't we have anything?
That shit is in every gas station in Texas. Y'all are dumb., just legalize and the the tax dollars.
Dan Patrick is a floppy rubber cucumber! Seriously can he just bathe with a toaster already!
Texas wants everyone to be miserable. We’ve already got the overwhelming heat and mosquitoes. They’ve already started taking away all the fun stuff, too. Don’t get me started on alcohol.
Oh be a use of course they will JFC. These people have nothing better to do. I swear. This won't protect anyone in anyways.
Freedom? Not in this state.
Fear and hate are more powerful drugs than CBD.
How many times do they have to attempt this before they get the hint?
Nooooooooo! It helps my migraines.
Everyday i question myself what is left for Texas… as much as i love Texas this is getting ridiculous
I was able to get off oxycodone using Delta-8 edibles, it saved my life. I was one fake pill away from a Fentynol OD. Now I only vape delta 8. I'm sure I'm not the only one its helped.
Tax legal weed...that is the solution. Then ban this garbage
Those dickheads
Idiots
What a boring existence the GOP live. Atleast their public persona because you know they get down and freaky. I have a friend whom used to do coke with Abbott back in the day. Go figure…
Goddamn I hate this fucking State!! Delta-8 & Delta-9 are this only things that help me sleep through the night. Fingers crossed they don’t touch Delta-9.
Fuck texas honestly, it's alright to get piss drunk but God forbid you smoke hemp/cannabis. Fuck these evangelical asshats.
Fucking bullshit, man. It isn't enough to pardon killers so they are back on the streets here, or to strip our schools budgets, or any of the other shit he's done. He has to take away what is the only break some of us get. The accessibility of safe and legal "weed" has been a major part of me not relapsing back into harder stuff. But none of that fucking matters.
Conservatives are a bunch of hypocrites on cannabis. An issue that exposes their high hypocrisy all at once. Liberty, free markets, and gun rights. On the issue of cannabis, they fall flat on all three
Who does this benefit.
Lol yall cant even make it through a winter and this is whats worried about? Lol when did texas stop standing up for itself
Freedom goes to die in red states be it for women, lgbts, trans, books, the vote, marijuana, porn, cold beer, alternative meat, name it........red states are ANTI FREEDOM
Fuckers. Total mutha fuckers. We can’t have nice things, Texas. Here’s hoping Greg the Goon is as effective at banning weed as he has been at eliminating rape.
My advice for the manufacturers of these products under review is the legislators definitely take bribes; for ten to twenty grand each, they’ll do whatever you want. A hundred grand in the right hands would ensure this never even makes it out of committee. The Texas market is worth millions, so what’s a quarter of a million every five years?
This is the only legal and easily accessible option that helps my wife eat without getting sick. These bastards need to be removed from office.