Pot decriminalization without legalization

[CosmicCowboy]

That just seems dumb as shit. Cartels will love that. Business will boom.

[Winehole23]

that it would even be considered in Texas is newsworthy.

this is Texas related, right?

[TimDunkem]

Booming cartels means more $$$ for the agencies that engage in the perpetual drug war. Also plenty of fresh meat for private prisons.

[CosmicCowboy]

that it would even be considered in Texas is newsworthy.

this is Texas related, right?

Both, actually. Texas is pretty much a lost cause. It will probably be the last state in the union to go recreational.

[Xevious]

Decriminalization only applies to the ones carrying small amounts, correct? Not the dealers. In any case, Texas is throwing a ton of tax revenue away because of their backwards stance on pot and gambling.

[CosmicCowboy]

Decriminalization only applies to the ones carrying small amounts, correct? Not the dealers. In any case, Texas is throwing a ton of tax revenue away because of their backwards stance on pot and gambling.

Yeah, but fear of repercussions of a pot arrest history has kept a lot of people from seeking out the underground outlets. Take that fear away without a legal source and the cartels will boom.

[CosmicCowboy]

Besides, the future of pot is not as much in smoking flower but in the edibles, etc. Leave that to the cartels and there is no fucking way you can know what you are consuming, just like the heroin junkies dying like flies from fentanol ODs..

[Will Hunting]

Decriminalization only applies to the ones carrying small amounts, correct? Not the dealers. In any case, Texas is throwing a ton of tax revenue away because of their backwards stance on pot and gambling.
No kidding on the gambling. All the people in DFW who drive to Winstar to gamble are massive tax revenue that Texas is throwing away.

[baseline bum]

Both, actually. Texas is pretty much a lost cause. It will probably be the last state in the union to go recreational.

We'll be a little ahead of Mississippi.

[Xevious]

No kidding on the gambling. All the people in DFW who drive to Winstar to gamble are massive tax revenue that Texas is throwing away.
Same with the people on the eastern border in the Houston area. It's a fairly short trip to Lake Charles to get their gambling fix in.

[Will Hunting]

Same with the people on the eastern border in the Houston area. It's a fairly short trip to Lake Charles to get their gambling fix in.
Yeah when I lived in DFW I made the drive to Shreveport a few times just to mix it up, but the poker players at Winstar were so much worse that going to Winstar was the common sense thing to do financially :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

We'll be a little ahead of Mississippi.

Actually Mississippi is way ahead of us. They passed their referendum in November and will have a full blown medical program out by July.

[TimDunkem]

Actually Mississippi is way ahead of us. They passed their referendum in November and will have a full blown medical program out by July.
Was about to post this. Oklahoma, South Dakota, and others are light years ahead too. Shameful.

[baseline bum]

Actually Mississippi is way ahead of us. They passed their referendum in November and will have a full blown medical program out by July.

Fuck me, when Mississippi is more progressive that our state...

[CosmicCowboy]

Fuck me, when Mississippi is more progressive that our state...

Dan Patrick is a fucking reefer madness dinosaur and shuts everything down in the senate.

[DMC]

People who hold on to the dogma of grandpa's morality like an anchor falling into the abyss should be voted out of office. There's no science behind so much shit that happens in these states.

[vy65]

Dan Patrick is a fucking reefer madness dinosaur and shuts everything down in the senate.

The state leadership of this state is an abortion between him, governor hot wheels, and the AG under FBI investigation.

[FrostKing]

Just checked Gregory Night Nurse. Remix Kompresser. GONE.

You animals are wypint arts now.

[FrostKing]

Joke. But seriously. Techno version best. @ME when it plays.

Private Security maybe better track.

[FrostKing]

https://youtu.be/SsKB6FNG1ao

[SnakeBoy]

Dan Patrick Vows To Shut Down THC Shops in Texas
https://texasscorecard.com/state/dan-patrick-vows-to-shut-down-thc-shops-in-texas/

https://b2161369.smushcdn.com/2161369/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/screenshot-2025-03-19-at-2.06.38%E2%80%AFpm-e1742412884715.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1

"We're going to ban your stores before we leave here for good, whether it's in May or July or August," Patrick declared at a press conference Wednesday morning, recommending they voluntarily close their doors now.
Patrick's remarks come as he leads a push for Senate Bill 3, authored by State Sen. Charles Perry (RLubbock), which would shut down all THC-infused product sales, close existing smoke shops, and prevent new ones from opening. He described the explosion of over 8,000 THC retailers across Texas in just the last few years as nothing short of a backdoor marijuana legalization effort, fueled by loopholes in state and federal law.The Senate passed the bill in a 24-7 vote Wednesday afternoon.

"These rogue retailers are selling THC products containing several times more THC content than marijuana purchased from a drug dealer off the street," Patrick said in a statement after the passage of SB 3. "These dangerous products must not be allowed to permeate our communities and endanger Texas children."

“Joshua bought a product called Wedding Cake Delta 8, which caused him to fall into a psychotic break. The voices in his head told him to go to LA to save God’s children. He was suffering. He didn’t understand what was happening to his brain, and he stepped in front of a train in Pecos, Texas. He was 22 years old.” said Patrick

RIP poor Joshua...another victim of the Big Pot Wedding Cake Industrial Complex

[ChumpDumper]

Dan Patrick Vows To Shut Down THC Shops in Texas
https://texasscorecard.com/state/dan-patrick-vows-to-shut-down-thc-shops-in-texas/

https://b2161369.smushcdn.com/2161369/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/screenshot-2025-03-19-at-2.06.38%E2%80%AFpm-e1742412884715.png?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1

"We're going to ban your stores before we leave here for good, whether it's in May or July or August," Patrick declared at a press conference Wednesday morning, recommending they voluntarily close their doors now.
Patrick's remarks come as he leads a push for Senate Bill 3, authored by State Sen. Charles Perry (RLubbock), which would shut down all THC-infused product sales, close existing smoke shops, and prevent new ones from opening. He described the explosion of over 8,000 THC retailers across Texas in just the last few years as nothing short of a backdoor marijuana legalization effort, fueled by loopholes in state and federal law.The Senate passed the bill in a 24-7 vote Wednesday afternoon.

"These rogue retailers are selling THC products containing several times more THC content than marijuana purchased from a drug dealer off the street," Patrick said in a statement after the passage of SB 3. "These dangerous products must not be allowed to permeate our communities and endanger Texas children."

“Joshua bought a product called Wedding Cake Delta 8, which caused him to fall into a psychotic break. The voices in his head told him to go to LA to save God’s children. He was suffering. He didn’t understand what was happening to his brain, and he stepped in front of a train in Pecos, Texas. He was 22 years old.” said Patrick

RIP poor Joshua...another victim of the Big Pot Wedding Cake Industrial Complex

Do you have an actual opinion about any of this?

[Blake]

Lol det thc Boogeyman. Poor koriwhat

[SnakeBoy]

Do you have an actual opinion about any of this?

Dan is right that they are using a loophole to sell an unregulated product

[ChumpDumper]

Dan is right that they are using a loophole to sell an unregulated productDo you think it should be regulated by the government or do you think it should be banned by the government?

[Blake]

Dan is right that they are using a loophole to sell an unregulated product

Got better things to spend tax dollar on than going after those guys. But fearmongering works on your clan every time.

[Winehole23]

the drug war has always been a license to harass freaks and normies who like to get high, it's about social control

of course they'll be ramping up

[Winehole23]

target rich environment in Austin, TX. and all over Texas, I would guess.

very many convenience stores supply marijuana, it's right out there in the open now.

[Thread]

the drug war has always been a license to harass freaks and normies who like to get high, it's about social control

of course they'll be ramping up

...then let it go and it's every man, woman and family for themselves. Which is what it is now except we wouldnt' be throwing billions of dollars at a lost cause decades on end. (We) let them drink themselves into oblivion and death, shattering families all along the route with no end in sight. Let 'em drug themselves that-a-way.

Wash our hands of it. Walk away from (them).

[Winehole23]

it all fits with Republicans wanting to make other people less free, this has been thematic over generations

[Thread]

it all fits with Republicans wanting to make other people less free, this has been thematic over generations

I wouldn't waste another dime nor effort on them, or, the drunks. Nobody forces them to drink, or, drug themselves. It's a free country.

[Winehole23]

I wouldn't waste another dime nor effort on them, or, the drunks. Nobody forces them to drink, or, drug themselves. It's a free country.so, you want the US government to persecute others for faults you don't have?

[Blake]

the drug war has always been a license to harass freaks and normies who like to get high, it's about social control

of course they'll be ramping up

Hard liquor and tobacco? No problem!

[z0sa]

Tons and tons of businesses gonna circle the drain with this one.

Liquor stores will continue to stay open, make tons of money, and kill thousands in Texas every year.

[Thread]

so, you want the US government to persecute others for faults you don't have?

Just leave them to themselves.

[Winehole23]

Hard liquor and tobacco? No problem!Chickenshit enforcement is a symptom of corruption.

When they get rid of the commercially available weed, they'll start picking on the legal shit harder, including tobacco and alcohol.

There's a Republican in the White House, the police have returned to work after a long labor slowdown.

[Thread]

Chickenshit enforcement is a symptom of corruption.

When they get rid of the easily available drugs, they'll start picking on the legal shit harder.

There's a Republican in the White House, the police have returned to work after a long labor slowdown.

Permitting an establishment to sell & serve liquor to customers who arrive by automobile is so outrageous upon consideration that it's embarrassing.

Law enforcement is forbidden to sit out there waiting for them to come out, but yet they come out and drive drunk.

[Winehole23]

Dan Patrick is a fucking reefer madness dinosaur and shuts everything down in the senate.Abbott vetoed SB 3, the THC ban


Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday vetoed a contentious state ban on THC products, keeping the Texas hemp industry alive while spiking a top priority of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.


Senate Bill 3 would have banned consumable hemp products that contained any THC, including delta-8 and delta-9.


Abbott, who had remained quiet about the issue throughout the legislative session, rejected the measure just minutes before the veto deadline amid immense political pressure (https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/02/texas-thc-ban-greg-abbott-dan-patrick/) from both sides of the aisle, including from hardline conservatives typically supportive of Patrick’s priorities.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/22/texas-thc-ban-bill-greg-abbott-veto-senate-bill-3/

[Winehole23]

i.e., you'd have to get a prescription


The Washington Post first reported on Thursday (https://wapo.st/3YnglSZ) that Trump was expected to use an executive order to instruct federal agencies to reclassify marijuana as a less regulated Schedule III drug from a Schedule I. Axios reported the potential reclassification of pot (https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/trump-marijuana-federal-restrictions-reclassify) — out of a group that includes heroin and into a lower tier of less dangerous drugs, such as steroids and Tylenol with codeine — would take place early next year.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/12/cannabis-stocks-trump-regulations.html