| Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick vows to ban all THC products in Texas
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick vows to ban THC products, threatening dispensaries
By Isaac Yu, Austin BureauDec 5, 2024
FILE - Products advertised as containing synthetically derived delta-8 THC are offered for sale at a smoke shop in north Seattle on Feb. 25, 2022.Gene Johnson/AP
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks to representatives of the Public Utility Commission of Texas on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 in Houston.Raquel Natalicchio/Staff photographer
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said late Wednesday that banning THC products would be a top priority in the state legislature next year, a move that could shutter dozens of marijuana-adjacent businesses across the state.
Patrick, who presides over the state Senate, said he would clear the path for lawmakers to prohibit all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol when lawmakers return in January. Recreational marijuana is illegal in Texas, but the state opened the door to THC varieties that can still produce a high when it legalized hemp in 2019.
Patrick argued in a statement that the 2019 law had been taken too far, leading to the proliferation of products with higher levels of THC, the main compound in cannabis that produces a high.
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"Retailers exploited the agriculture law to sell life-threatening, unregulated forms of THC to the public and made them easily accessible," Patrick said.
The 2019 law, part of a broad bipartisan agriculture package, allowed Texas farmers to grow hemp, a form of the cannabis plant with low levels of THC, and required that consumable products contain no more than 0.3% THC.
Marijuana products, which are also derived from cannabis plants, contain higher levels of THC than hemp and are still banned in Texas outside of a limited medical marijuana program.
But the change complicated enforcement of marijuana-related crimes because now law enforcement has to test THC levels to determine whether products are illegal marijuana or legal hemp.
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Patrick's announcement comes after the hemp law's lead sponsor, state Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, expressed misgivings about the state of regulation on hemp products for intoxicating levels of THC and said that products should be taken off the shelves.
Critics of the hemp market say the proliferation of products and growth in dispensaries around the state are not sufficiently regulated and pose a public health risk. Hemp industry groups note that their products are regulated by the Texas Department of State Health Services, but argue the state has too few regulators for the growing sector.
"While we share their concern about youth access and potentially dangerous products sailing under the radar of regulators, we oppose banning cannabis for responsible adult use," said Heather Fazio, co-founder of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy. "Such a ban would hand this multi-billion dollar industry over to the illicit market, abandoning all opportunity to properly regulate the industry."
Dec 5, 2024
Isaac Yu
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Originally from Garland, Texas, Isaac Yu is a politics reporter based in Austin. He previously wrote for the Texas Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He can be reached at isaac.yu@hearst.com.
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