As attitudes around marijuana become more favorable among voters in Texas, reform advocates say it’s high time for lawmakers to revisit cannabis laws in the legislative session.
Well, we’ve seen the House of Representatives pass multiple bills with supermajorities out of their chamber and send it to the Senate. We’ve seen less movement in the Senate, but we have seen appetite, especially for medical cannabis and hemp legislation. And so really, I think that the legislators and the governor, they all want to advance this issue. The pinch point has been truly the lieutenant governor.
How many of these bills that you have seen are similar to laws that have been brought up in previous legislative sessions, and how much do you think has changed?
TexasStandard No to MJ; we have too many drug users as it is. Keep the roads safe.
TexasStandard if alcohol and cigarettes are legal, pot being illegal is completely nonsensical.
TexasStandard We have too many addicts all over Austin. Don’t harm more by making MJ legal.