Texas cannabis industry faces potential collapse

Texas lawmakers passed a bill with bipartisan support to ban THC products in Texas, arguing they’re too dangerous for consumers. Industry leaders say it could essentially eliminate a multi-billion-dollar industry in the state. Both sides are waiting to see if Gov. Greg Abbott will sign or veto the bill. CNN’s Ed Lavandera reports. #cnn #texas #thc

50 Comments

  1. @HERB.SOJOURNER on June 12, 2025 at 11:58 am

    IN A DRUNKEN, HYPOCRITICAL, UNJUST NATION THAT SEXUALLY ABUSES ENOUGH CHILDREN WHILE DRUNK ON THE DRUG OF CHOICE OF THE DRUG WARRIORS TO POPULATE CORPUS CHRISTI 2 TIMES EVERY YEAR

    ALL CANNABIS IS MEDICINE

    RECREATION ITSELF IS ESSENTIAL TO GOOD HEALTH, THUS MEDICINE

    ALCOHOL IS NOT MEDICINE

    IT IS THE DEVIL’S SIN FERTILIZER, THE EXCREMENT OF LEAVEN, A FUNGUS GOD NEVER CALLED FOOD AND NEVER WILL

    CANNABIS IS CHRIST’S CHOICE FOR THE RECREATION OF HIS FLOCKS

    OVER THE EXCREMENT

    YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SUFFER THE WRATH OF GOD FOR EATING AND DRINKING WITH THE DRUNKEN AND BEATING THE OTHER SERVANTS – CANNABIS CONSUMERS – WHILE HOLDING THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS

    YOU ARE NOT A DRUG FREE PEOPLE

    YOU HAVE LAID THE SIN AND SHAME OF YOUR ALCOHOL DRUGGIES

    UPON THE BACKS OF THEIR VICTIMS FOR CONSUMING THE ONLY SCRIPTURALLY CLASSIFIED FOOD COMPETING IN A TWO PRODUCT COMPETITION FOR RECREATION – ENTERING INTO A HOLY GOD’S REST

    AND HE IS NOT RECEIVING DRUNKEN HYPOCRITES WITH BACCHUS BREATH INTO HIS REST

    HE IS MOST CERTAINLY RECEIVING CONSUMERS OF HIS FOOD

    ESPECIALLY THAT GARGANTUAN FLOCK OF LAMBS TRAUMATIZED BY THE VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL PERVERSION OF DRUNKEN HYPOCRITES

    YOU CAN BET YOUR SOULS ON THAT

  2. @Privado834 on June 12, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    First off, cannabis in moderation can help certain things. As someone who was a hardcore stoner and abused it, it can also cause Hypersis cannabis syndrome. Shit hurt.

    Someone said that the Texas legislature needs cannabis. I would argue that Elon musk was allegedly on Molly and K and was not in a happy mood. Turns out, those drugs only make you a better person if your soul isn’t filled with evil.

  3. @DRACOFURY on June 12, 2025 at 12:00 pm

    Good I’m all for it 😀

  4. @kurtshelton9802 on June 12, 2025 at 12:01 pm

    Hey Dan I’m going to laugh when Hometown hero sues you and the Republican Party

  5. @shogunofsorrow787 on June 12, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    what happened to less government

  6. @sunny-p1i5i on June 12, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Texas is as fun as it looks

  7. @Buick72Rivi on June 12, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    Give them ma and pa weed dealers their fair cut i see 😂😂😂

  8. @Iggy1977 on June 12, 2025 at 12:07 pm

    The Texas penal system is about to make a lot more money. Of course Texas is going to target marginalized communities, lock them up, and get their slave labor. And the cartels will also profit while crime will spike. Then it’s more money for the penal system. Rinse and repeat.

    Texas won’t be the only state that brings back Cannabis prohibition. You’ll see other states follow suit(Florida I see you) and then you’ll see the White House take the laws away from the states and push for a Nationwide ban.

  9. @RG_outdoors285 on June 12, 2025 at 12:08 pm

    Meanwhile in Oklahoma 🌬️🌬️

  10. @Gdawg07 on June 12, 2025 at 12:10 pm

    Closed minded Republicans like this are bad for our party. Focus on something more important all you doing is losing young votes by doing this. closed minded old head. Still better than dems tho

  11. @ixinor on June 12, 2025 at 12:14 pm

    Texas is filled with criminal government employees

  12. @asphyxiafeeling on June 12, 2025 at 12:15 pm

    Imagine letting all the other legal states eat your lunch. Self inflicted wounds

  13. @ghosttownradio6205 on June 12, 2025 at 12:17 pm

    Looks like we just need to use that hemp for ALL THE OTHER PRODUCTS YOU CAN MAKE WITH IT. Hempcrete, Hemp Paper, Hemp clothes, etc.

  14. @MrBraeden1231 on June 12, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    That’s guy needs a joint

  15. @LordFontleraux on June 12, 2025 at 12:20 pm

    Move to Arkansas. You are free to grow hemp.

  16. @WesleyAnderson on June 12, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    Spot price for pot has hovered around $5/gm for years. No profit can be had in the consumer market. It costs a fortune to get started, & you never get it back.

  17. @anngelovalencia4833 on June 12, 2025 at 12:21 pm

    PROJECTION…..

    WHEN PEOPLE ARE ACCUSING OTHERS OF WHAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE DOING IN SECRET🙂

  18. @robertreeves7237 on June 12, 2025 at 12:22 pm

    Nanny state

  19. @cjschmitt4882 on June 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    Good we don’t need another legal drug! Let’s get rid of alcohol next and more!

  20. @WhoWhatWhenandWhy on June 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    Like alcohol, do not let your children have it!

  21. @ricosuave6503 on June 12, 2025 at 12:23 pm

    Hey alcoholics are telling you bs. Lol

  22. @HERB.SOJOURNER on June 12, 2025 at 12:26 pm

    WOE TO THE DRUNKEN HYPOCRITES WHO HAVE FORCE FED A HOLY CREATOR’S CREATION THE EXCREMENT OF FUNGUS FOR RECREATION FOOD

    AND DESTROYED THE VICTIMS OF THE DRUNKEN FOR CONSUMING GRASS LIKE SHEEP

    YOU ARE CONDEMNED IN CHRIST ALREADY

  23. @nategwinn9058 on June 12, 2025 at 12:26 pm

    Texas is such a sh!thole! Everyone from Texas is stupid.

  24. @Hijo_De_Afrique on June 12, 2025 at 12:26 pm

    No way some of these politicians dont work for the cartels. It’s too obvious that they are just catering to illegal sales.

  25. @eladnudd1895 on June 12, 2025 at 12:28 pm

    😮what administration made this possible, and why!? The people that are for it can’t see the forest through the trees. Oh I have grown and smoked my share! Oh yes i have. I’m an old stoner, being straight is a whole new high for me. But be real, pot ain’t good, being high and stoned all the time ain’t good. Could be that this is indeed the very reason it became legalized. Especially among the poor that already rely on government assistance because of being held back. One thing that could be added to make people more consistent and keeping people in the ditches and vote the democratic way is pot.. not only being fat and lazy and pumping out babies on tax payers dime, making pot legalized and making it so easily accessible!! Is now another tool and one of the best way to bring down this nation and make people compliant.. Its by design, but ya don’t see it as it really is. Because ya want to be stoned all the time. And thats the idea..and being stoned, ya can’t be productive.. there already pumping cancer causing foods, liquor stores are almost 24/7 now. And now all the pot. Come on. Think about it… why?!?!

  26. @WhoisU_45 on June 12, 2025 at 12:29 pm

    But alcohol is still legal?

  27. @LSmoney215 on June 12, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    So ban cigarettes if that’s their argument

  28. @kalevra6999 on June 12, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    Thought and immigration but open and legal to drugs Hypocrisy goes a long way

  29. @elestromusicgamesfun1101 on June 12, 2025 at 12:33 pm

    Texas seens to be a BS state.

  30. @juanjesusramirez9162 on June 12, 2025 at 12:34 pm

    Yes guns good drugs bad

  31. @meggastar1 on June 12, 2025 at 12:36 pm

    Isn’t it easier to hide -and use – gummies than it is to hide and drink a six pack? Or a bottle of booze? What is this self righteous idiot talking about? Would he *rather* kids illegally procure alcohol instead? Absolute Bible-thumping, hillbilly-in-a-suit
    Ignorance. He DARES to call it a poison when alcohol is literally classified as one. Yes. Alcohol is poisonous. Idiots. Texas red neck idiots. In suits. Absolute NORON.

  32. @bearwizard5717 on June 12, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Texas is the nanny state.

  33. @cumquad420 on June 12, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Cannabis is not dangerous…People that are against it clearly wants to control other adults decisions and lives…the only excuse that’s not validating is that old farts like Dan San Patrick are party poopers and knows people go to jail mostly on weed and saying shit like its influencing people all ages to be impaired minded but ok then..why people don’t do dumb shit being high on weed but do a lot of dumb shit when they drunk or on any other hard core scientific known bad drugs?? Because weed don’t make people do dumb evil shit!!! Ima say it clearly how it is!!!

  34. @LoriArnoldBunnyETR on June 12, 2025 at 12:43 pm

    “They want to kill your kids!” Says Patrick while simping for big pharma and alcohol industry

  35. @thebigchillout on June 12, 2025 at 12:44 pm

    Tbh since every where made it legal then drug testing labs opened up then they made all drugs legal upto a certain amount and the world has gone bonkers . Awareness and responsibility starts in the home but all these drugs make you soft and make your mind weak sauce . Nevermind the goverments and there bs laws and no laws everyone needs to put the drugs down and wake tf up and take your lifes back .

  36. @JohnEboyee on June 12, 2025 at 12:46 pm

    If they were worried about the health of children, they should ban processed sugars.

  37. @keithstone7881 on June 12, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    This whole sham stinks of drug companies doing whatever they can to secure a legal dominance in the market. As Senator Kennedy so elegantly put, “GAG ME WITH A SPOON.”

  38. @Raw2Mint on June 12, 2025 at 12:47 pm

    Marijuana has nothing in it that can kill anyone 😂. Liquor does and it’s sold all across America in every convenient store . I wonder why they don’t call for banning alcohol when so many are alcoholics . Bottles of beer and liquor litter streets and you wonder why… Paid off.

  39. @brainown3149 on June 12, 2025 at 12:48 pm

    While I dont agree with a comple shut down I do agree the industry needs advertising regulations to avoid such young kids flocking. Why does every weed store need giant neon ropes and signage you can see from a mile away in pretty colors? Why do we need so many thc products made to emulate kids candy? You can regulate like the tobacco industry without shutting it down.

  40. @darrin8955 on June 12, 2025 at 12:48 pm

    God, what dumb people ,hemp can not be turned into thc products. People that are that stupid shoulnt be making laws. Hemp is called hemp because it has less then .75% thc if it got more it called cannabis . You cant get high off .75 % thc. They want it banned because cannabis has anti cancer, anti inflammatory, etc, cbd HAS BEEN PROVEN TO HEAL SCARS AND LESION IN THE BRAIN.

  41. @ToxiqRiq95 on June 12, 2025 at 12:49 pm

    It’s only because they don’t know how to tax it to where it will benefit them (the government)

  42. @equalicritical on June 12, 2025 at 12:49 pm

    They are going to put 3k employees on unemployment and over 300 companies out of business. They are going to lose 750 million in taxes revenue. I work for a major cannabis company and we go to great lengths to stop children from getting it. The alcohol companies are paying off legislators to push this ban.

  43. @previousordinance99 on June 12, 2025 at 12:50 pm

    Kids have ALWAYS gotten their hands on shit they shouldn’t. Cigarettes and alcohol are as easily abused as cannabis. So where is the alcohol and tobacco persecution?!? He’s a fucking hypocrite. Period.

  44. @anngelovalencia4833 on June 12, 2025 at 12:52 pm

    Education and Information 😊Even Libertarians Endorse It. It seems its just Religious Fundamentalism Acting Out. Projection…when people accuse others of what they themselves are doing in secret…..

  45. @andreslucero8421 on June 12, 2025 at 12:52 pm

    The governor needs to be investigated…!!
    Follow the money…!!
    who’s trying to stop it…!!!
    you can’t stop people from smoking it…!!
    You’re just making criminals of innocent people..!!!

  46. @Merc_420 on June 12, 2025 at 12:52 pm

    Kids getting this junk? I’d rather them get into weed instead of alcohol and pills.
    An that happenes daily! But those aren’t illegal 🤔 big pharma you lost. Sit down

  47. @Iggy1977 on June 12, 2025 at 12:54 pm

    I thought MAGA was all about less government involvement? It sure seems like their movement is pretty intrusive.

  48. @alexanderednie1205 on June 12, 2025 at 12:54 pm

    Hemp doesn’t make thc products to begin with. Nobody in this video knows what they’re talking about. Texas govt is stupid. CNN isn’t far behind.

  49. @wupapi39 on June 12, 2025 at 12:54 pm

    Idiot politician

  50. @robertfoee566 on June 12, 2025 at 12:57 pm

    Guess we’ll just have to go back to cocaine then.

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