What's next for Texas, as neighboring New Mexico legalizes recreational marijuana
What's next for Texas, as neighboring New Mexico legalizes recreational marijuana
The U.S. House passed a bill Friday that would decriminalize marijuana nationwide, the patchwork of legalization efforts in neighboring Texas states is expanding, with New Mexico’s recreational program now in effect. READ MORE: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/whats-next-for-texas-as-neighboring-new-mexico-legalizes-recreational-marijuana/
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There’s already big weed growers in Texas there’s so many cops making money off of letting the growers grow their weed and only busting them and they’re harvest like every 3 or 6 years I’ve seen it happen with my own family and Hawkins Texas I have cousins that live out there and they have cousins from Florida that grow weed out there and the cops just use them they don’t necessarily come and do a bust when they should they only come into a bus whenever there’s tons of weed growing on their property so they can come and get their money’s worth of weed dry and cure it and make their money off of it
I think texas is proud of being stuck in the past in reefer madness.
If there was a plant that grew AR-15s, I bet Texas would legalize it. My body, my choice for vaccines and masks but I’m not allowed to use a harmless plant for my chronic pain and PTSD.
I don’t even smoke and can’t believe this is still a topic.
make it legal
The Land of Enchantment.
Texas won’t legalize recreationally until 10-20 years from now sadly. I’d bet we’ll be the LAST State if we ever even get to legalize it medically.
Texas gave us more guns yet it’s a problem smoking a plant 🤦🏽♂️
Don’t be stupid. Small town police depts are gonna be taking advantage of this as a revenue source, trust me.
Legalize it in Texas have the tax from sales support the border and keeping fentanyl and other real drugs out of America the
Welcome to Texas, set your watch back 20 years!
Texas get ur stuff together
So stupid how this is leagal in some states and not in others.
Make BBQ and cheese illegal. You could get fat.
Legalization please
Legalize it
Texas law is too hard nosed. It’s gonna take forever before this state gives in.
Legalize it but keep it out of big corporations hands
Texas lawmakers can’t segregate blacks from whites so they want to hold on to the only racist law they can stick with
4.6 million in 4 days,…
Nothing till we get a new governor
The governor didn’t get Reminds me of President Nixon how that went down against marijuana
Lt. Governor needs to be voted out
Legalize it
Read page 1 of the bible
I live in Texas and absolutely hate it. I went to Colorado this past December, and everyone one in the store were from Texas lol. Legalize marjiuana and legalize gambling. Open casinos! Texas is losing so much money to other states.
Yeah, it still takes like 8 hours average for most of us to get to NM.
Texans come use the dispos more then us we stay loyal to the plugs 😂
Free the weed
Somebody needs to get that governor out of office and get a new governor . he’s a Miserable old tyrant man Who probably never had fun in his life or never got laid One or the to
Decriminalize it, and throw Gregg Abbott in jail
not throwing shade but muhahahaha Texas. We are NM! Just joking. Hope you guys get legalization at some point in the next 20 years😀😀I am also a conservative but time Texas show some restraint on its cannabis laws. It will actually bring you closer to God if moderately used.
It’s so sad because Texas has 18% of the population I know that once Texas legalizes cannabis they’re going to have some of the best cannabis in the world you see everything is bigger in Texas so with their THC levels Texas is going to have some good ass weird someday
Don’t bring it to Texas what the hell is that
Did God command 1 State not to kill and another to kill Why can’t we all under 1 Nation abide and have the same set of LAWS ITS NOT RIGHT PEOPLE N TEXAS CAN GET A CRIMINAL RECORD FOR POT BUT MY NEIGHBORING STATE CAN SMOKE POT AND NOT GET INTO TROUBLE WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT ITS NOT DAM RIGHT ONE BIT
So the easiest solution is don’t just cross the border to buy, cross the border to live there!
I hate Texas!
I had to move to Colorado to finally have recreational
Bunch a BS for Texas.
OHHH YEA CONGRATULATIONS 🎉
oh no poor people in texas, i hope theyre ok, wow marijuana legalized in new mexico, man thats horrible really hope theyre all gonna be ok, you guys need a binkie? need me to hold your hand? hahaha 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
It’s OK we can just get from the darkweb it don’t matter
The funny (strange, not ‘ha ha’) thing is that during the last mid-term elections, Texas Republicans made marijuana decriminalization a part of their party platform. So, the Texas Democratic party changed their platform from decriminalization to Legalization! 8^). —- Yet. here we still are. — Hmmmmmmmm?
You think all the people moving in to texas from california hate cannabis? lol, probably not. Legalize it!
Not unless some certain law authority of texas already has income flow of marijuana thru different branch
Money 💰
Texas loves the Angry alcoholic gun violence too much to ever let it become a hippy dippy peace and love state
In Colorado we were flooded with all kind of people since 2014. Most of them are criminals, shady people and runaway teenagers from the Midwest. Natives were pushed out of the state and the last normal year was 2013. They always said the apocalypse will hit in 2012 but in Colorado it hit in January 2014.
If we Texans want legal cannabis we’ll have to Vote greedy greg abbott out. Beto O’rourke is a cannabis advocate and will legalize it once he becomes governor.
Prison for having a got damn plant smmfh!
Greg is about to lose his ability to run again lol
Okay
It’s called the government will make their money in every way they can I have another instance with a uncle he’s dead from smoking too much meth. The cops let him sell meth out of his house right off the highway in White House Texas for 6 years straight never did a bust and he was selling pounds he told me the guy he was getting it from when I was like 15 years old that the guy he was getting it from was in his 40s and was a ex cop and the guy had buckets and buckets full and his whole house of meth right down the road in Whitehouse Texas people wrap your heads around it’s going to be a hard pill to swallow but the cops help these cartels sell drugs and they make their money off of it and yes they knew he was selling he was the biggest dope dealer in White House everybody knew him the cops never did a bus because they only pulled people over that were leaving his house and they got to give out tickets for traffic violations and they would get their little four or $500 tickets and make their money that’s all it is is a money game to them