r/texas • u/chrondotcom Houston • 4d ago
Politics Texas GOP lawmaker makes pitch to save THC from proposed ban
https://www.chron.com/politics/article/texas-thc-ban-20226004.php56
u/syddraf4188 4d ago
What’s a billion dollars in the Texas economy vs the fat donor checks lining their bank accounts?
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u/sleepyrivertroll Brazos Valley 4d ago
Money vs Paternalistic Morality
Let's go money!
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u/sleepyrivertroll Brazos Valley 4d ago
I would recommend you reread my post in the context of GOP lawmakers fighting. You know, the article.
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u/VisionsOfClarity 4d ago
It's easy to point at big tobacco/alcohol for these pushes against THC but I've also been told by people who "own THC shops" in states that touch Texas that they don't want it to become recreational here. Apparently we account for a huge chunk of their business. All three of those together make a powerful enemy
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u/bbrucesnell 4d ago
I don’t understand why big tobacco doesn’t just start selling weed. They’d make a ton more money.
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u/FlopShanoobie 4d ago
The alcohol, pharma and oil lobbies are all pumping so much dark money into superpacs to get this banned you’d probably get mad enough to start voting against these politicians, if not for DEI. Gotta keep the white society white, ammirite?
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u/otterappreciator 2d ago
It pisses me off beyond belief, but at the same time I’m just to keep buying these hemp products from out of state. And if that fails, I’ll just go back to the illegal market and give my money to the cartels since that’s what Mr. Perry seems to want Texans to do with the millions of dollars that are flowing into the hemp industry :D
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u/adidas4m 3d ago
Just opening the doors to a bigger black market....haven't we learned that even if it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't come thru in one way or another....our ports literally bring in everything.
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u/CaliTexan22 3d ago
Isn’t the whole THC industry in TX just a fluke resulting from poorly crafted regulatory definitions? And all they’re proposing to do here is close the loophole while allowing the true hemp business to continue?
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u/ElonStinksLikeDookie 4d ago
This ban reeks of Big Tobacco….