Things are tightening up in the lone srar state. I cant beleive this is even a real thing . But here we are
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Unfortunately, this ban might be coming federally by the end of the year.
Based around a revision to the 2018 farm bill. Set to be voted on this year unless an extension is granted
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No offense meant to anyone but Texas has always been backwards.
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They are dumb but it’s an answer (blowback) to a previous Dallas move in the other sense. I will try to find it.
I think it was this one, it turned them totally mad at political level. Then this shit show (mostly aiming THca grey area, on hemp they are screwed).
The worse is that in doing this, they promote homegrown setups more than before the legalization in others states. Because the pool is the fuck bigger now ^^
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You should research Alabama 
… approved medical like 3yrs ago… No smoking… Still hasn’t ok the Dr to prescribe med cards 
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Not when it comes to Porterhouse Steaks!!!
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Yeah hopefully memaw ivy gets voted out but the one running isn’t any better. I hope tubberville doesn’t win it.
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Haha yeah man that’s my neck of the woods and don’t get me started…I know political discussion isn’t allowed, which I think is silly on it’s own supposed merit, but come on man what a fu**ing joke this state is. Total incompetence and cutting off the nose despite the face. I’m a poly sci graduate and the lost millions if not billions of dollars from medical marijuana and gambling and lottery sickens me bc Alabama is poor with crappy schools infrastructure resources etc.
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Bro its actually embarrassing to me that i live here. Most ass backwards state as you know considering our financial struggles. I completely ignore anything going on and stay in my bubble
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And it’s sad they let the porch creek Indians set up casinos but vote down state gambling. This is all because of the good ol boys club here in bama. Lots of money under the table. They are all crooked. Memaw had to fill up that new prison too.
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Same here, I am actually 1 interview away from leaving here, Haha. Hopefully by August.
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Good for you im stuck unfortunately
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Yep just a bunch of turds that won’t flush
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Yeah…that’s tx for you.
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The new 2026 federal budget proposal is also looking to strip away federal protections for medical marijuana. So yeah… backwards.
Hopefully it won’t pass, though. It was also proposed every year from 2017-2021 and never passed so fingers crossed that holds true again!
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yeah, it was dallas and austin… what sent him over the edge was, last novemeber dallas approved a rule that the scent of weed smoke was no longer considered probable cause for a stop/search, that into effect in January and partrick lost his shit…
what i dont get is that we got that powerful and influential old oil money that is balls deep into the hemp industry, so how could these JR Ewing-types allow patrick to do something like this? one thing the rich dont like is people messing with thier money…
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So SB3 is now on Abbot’s desk, either he approves it, or if he sleeps on it till the session ends, it automatically becomes law after 20days.
if u want to tell Abbot you disagree, here is a link to the petition:
https://texashempbusinesscouncil.com/petition/
or u can email the gov:
or, better yet call his office:
(512) 463-2000
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just had a deep dive on the BB bill at work. The new TX law has some connection. You can see plainly on the AI laws (10 year ban on state regs), but the feds are supposed to let loose a bunch of money for agriculture. The share that would go to food/normal agri vs hemp is probably a contentious topic. you can make up fairly convincing conspiracy theories based on common sense, but if you just follow the money in the legislation, you can see at least some of the actual conflict in real time.
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Probably going the same way it did in Florida. Governor vetoed at the last minute. Said small businesses would be ruined and the state would lose too much money. If all those smoke shops quit paying taxes and rent the economy would take a huge hit. It’s more money than the medical cannabis companies bring in. When the hemp industry is threatened they dump a lot of cash into lobbyists and back channels to get attention from the politicians. And then everyone in the industry starts communicating with each other and build relationships to fight back against the legislation
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Only when it’s an excuse to start a fire between members. When it belong to laws like this, better to be informed (specially for foreigners looking at Houston like me ^^).
“Leaving Rohrabacher-Blumenauer out isn’t an oversight, it’s political chess. Even if public pressure forces them to reinstate the amendment, they’ll likely add the same rider they tried last year, which says that regardless of the amendment, the DOJ can still enforce federal law against any activity within the buffer zones defined by 21 U.S.C. § 860. “Their strategy is to distract us, make us fight to get the amendment back, while quietly pushing through this carve-out.”
“This would leave most dispensary locations vulnerable, even if the amendment is restored, because 21 U.S.C. § 860 zones are so broad they cover nearly all populated areas. In practice, the DOJ would still have enforcement power over most of the industry.”
Not TX-specific but holly shit, each time that I’m follow a rope it’s quite explosive. Germany have opened the dance here but globally EU laws are staying in the middle age. Govs are so used to lie on everything that I’m sure that they were all far from imagining how much stoners they have really to dial.
Money too. Projects can be quickly wealthy too, then weighting more in the local balances.
As the previous quote, look like control freaks move. I was aware for the oiled hemp, but the TMC dynamism look quite sturdy too imho. Can be as dumb that the fear to lost the prescriptions on legal hard drugs. Or to lose the decreasing votes that are barely maintaining them.
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