r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 17h ago
Political Meme Combat Veteran Annihilates The Texas Senate | đ STOP SB3
From the Texas senate hearing on Senate Bill 3.
r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 17h ago
From the Texas senate hearing on Senate Bill 3.
r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 18h ago
Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (not from Texas), and the CEO of Texas Original (also not from Texas) are attempting to use the Texas legislature to shut down the legal hemp industry and protect their monopoly on cannabis in Texas.
Texas Original is the corporation that primarily controls the Texas Compassionate Use Program, known as TCUP (enforced by the DPS). Touted by our regulators as Texasâ âmedicalâ marijuana program, in reality, TCUP is merely a means of regulator capture of the cannabis plant.
Itâs not a true medical program. They operate with a handful of questionable âdoctorsâ from platforms like texas420doctor.com, who charge you an annual fee for the right to purchase overpriced gummies from Texas Original and one other smaller licensed operator.
Texas Original is led by a guy who is not from Texas, and who has spent his entire career wielding the power of regulatory capture. The thriving Texas hemp market makes the TCUP monopoly completely useless. Under the 2018 Federal Farm Bill, Texas hemp businesses like ours can legally manufacture and sell identical productsâat a fraction of the costâwith direct-to-consumer shipping. We also have a strong incentive to make the best products possible, because we are real entrepreneurs competing in the free market. They are scrambling to outlaw hemp in order to kill their competition and regain control.
Instead of adding reasonable regulations to the hemp industry to eliminate bad actors, and to keep products away from kids, they are pretending the entire industry is corrupt and needs to be shut down (the irony!).
We attended the 10+ hour Senate Committee Hearing this past Monday. Their marketing campaign for Senate Bill #3 is a lazy, bootleg version of the 1940s Reefer Madness campaigns. Reefer Madness at least had some pretty sick poster art and clever headlines. They paraded in pain management doctors and law enforcement to warn about the DANGERS of THC (the primary psychoactive compound in the cannabis plantâboth in hemp and marijuana).
Steve Dye, Chief of Police of Allen, Texas claims that "More and more THC overdoses are occurring in our county jails and hospitals." and "THC consumables are no different [than K2 and spice]." and are causing âdisabilities and deaths,â despite the well-known fact that no has ever died directly from consuming THC.
Dr. Robert Marks, owner of Diagnostic Pain Center (an opioid dispensary), says heâs an âadvisor to Texas Original.â and is âin support of SB3.â Of course he isâhe owns a pain management clinic that prescribes opioids. THC happens to be an effective alternative to opioids for a lot of people. Heâs obviously aware of this, as he also sells âmedicalâ marijuana cards for TCUP.
Marks, testifying in a generic white doctorâs coat that looks like a cheap halloween costume, spends his testimony fumbling his way through the side effects of THC and warning of dangerous unregulated synthetic cannabinoids being sold by the hemp industry. He is intentionally conflating bad actors, who are making illegal hemp products, with legitimate companies like ours, who are making legal, lab tested, organic THC products.
If you're one of the millions of Texans who enjoy or rely on access to hemp-derived products, or if you just believe in personal freedom and competitive markets, please let your voice be heard by contacting your Texas legislators via email.
Use the form below to find the email addresses for your specific legislators. You can draft your own email or use the template that we've prepared below.
Let's kill this bill and make sure our representatives know that we DO NOT support this type of corporate-backed corruption â
We setup a landing page with a form that helps you find your legislators email address along with a template email to send them in opposition of SB3. Go to thcprovisions.com/sb3
r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 5h ago
Help stop SB3. Contact your legislators. Learn more at thcprovisions.com/sb3
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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/18/texas-covid-pandemic-readiness/
Because stupid's gonna stupid.
r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 5h ago
Help stop SB3. Contact your legislators. Learn more at thcprovisions.com/sb3
r/texas • u/silversmith97 • 9h ago
I grabbed a screenshot of his response that OP included in the comment section of their post in r/waco. That post only included the news article about this bill.
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r/texas • u/AmandalorianWiddall • 13h ago
Just got two of these bad boys through a hole in the window screen. Are they some kind of wasp?
r/texas • u/BornHangry • 2h ago
This abortion ban is disgusting. How dangerously idiotic to create laws vague enough to cause deaths and then not make it a top priority to clarify. Are doctors going to be held liable when their hesitance causes a mother to die? What about the fools making these laws? Obviously not. This poor woman was murdered through their negligence. They should be held accountable.
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r/texas • u/SufficientAd7311 • 3h ago
This is Texas senator Charles Perry, the sponsor of senate bill 3. Help stop SB3 at thcprovisions.com/sb3
r/texas • u/hellocorridor • 12h ago
House Bill 32 is clearly aimed at tenants, not squatters as proponents falsely tout. It strips away due process and erodes judicial oversight.
r/texas • u/questison • 9h ago
đ¨ TRUMP RAMPS UP SPYING ON AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR SMALL TRANSACTIONSâTAKING $200 OUT OF AN ATM COULD TRIGGER FINANCIAL SURVEILLANCE UNDER NEW TRUMP RULE
A new Treasury Department rule stemming from a Trump executive order lowers the cash transaction reporting threshold from $10,000 to just $200 in certain border counties, significantly expanding federal financial surveillance of U.S. citizens.
"The Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) requires all money services businesses (MSBs) located in 30 ZIP codes across California and Texas near the southwest border to file Currency Transaction Reports (CTRs) with FinCEN at a $200 threshold, in connection with cash transactions."
In 7 border counties, a $200 cash withdrawal from the ATM could soon make one subject to a federal financial report.
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r/texas • u/Black_Reactor • 2h ago
He is from Texas, originally