Texas House passes bill reducing penalties for low-level marijuana possession

Texas House passes bill reducing penalties for low-level marijuana possession



On Thursday, the Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that would reduce the penalty for possession of small amounts of …

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  • 👆👆🏻👆👆🏻👆👆🏻

  • But will the cops take your weed???

  • How about Yall do something better and just legalize it and stop arresting people for a plant

  • Moves on to the senate and gets shot down 100%. If it somehow gets passed senate the Gov will wad it up and throw it in the can. Too many old sticklers still in office.

  • Alcohol is worse then weed guys do your research

  • About Time Texans are Grown Adults if they can carry a firearm in Texas and drink and everything else why can’t Texans be trusted to make adult decisions about if they want cannabis or not listen to the people of Texas they are the government the people who make their choices heard

  • I thought texas cared so much about freedom. But wont legalize weed.

  • To bad Texas had Abbott ><

  • Here in Florida, it's only legal 'medicinally', but I can buy up to two and a half ounces per month at $110 per ounce. (THC = 24%, no sales taxes)

  • not good enough!

  • if a bunch of white guys can run around and make money off of it no one should be going to jail. These guys are hypocrites.

  • dang texas

  • You already know the Senate is dumb and will block the bill

  • Some states have to dragged into the 21st Century. Nenetheless, states like Texas and Pennsylvania will scream and kick the whole way.

  • Boo if a person has the right to kill their unborn child we have right to kill our brain cells

  • But theyll give us guns to smoke eachother…lol

  • so does that mean no enforcement on possession of less than an oz? and what about concentrates?

  • If they are going to start to back pedal on the laws, they should legalize it and tax it and use those tax dollar to finish the fucking 35 construction

  • Disney character panties are the most cutest and comfortable kind of panties to wear bgfr

  • Texas needs to get with the times sheesh. They got some middle east type laws concerning weed there.

  • get caught with even half a gram of thc (vapes) its a felony charge per cartage

  • The fact that it passed 9-0 should hopefully tell Greg Abbott something

  • If Joe Rogan never moved to Texas, this wouldn't be in the news today.

  • At this rate we'll catch up with the rest of the country in about 40 more years and then we'll only be 50 years behind the times.

  • Cannabis or Potiguaya NOT Marijuana. Marijuana is a different plant, it was used by Anslinger to trick citizens into believe it was evil Mexican weed.

  • the actual experience of the smoked herb has been clouded by a fog of "unrespectability" by the unthinking, unknowledgeable few who have not smoked themselves and yet insist upon setting themselves up as centers of propaganda about the said experience.
    -Allen Ginsberg

  • Make it legal, and stop playing these games. We're gonna smoke anyway…Get on your $hit Abbott♿️

  • every time i was arrested was for possession` it was always 2 grams!
    why did this war start?! _ to make money…
    now that the government is starting to realize what the people want, they can no longer continue the farce of marijuana prohibition.

  • If this was a democracy, weed would be legal.

  • just legalize …….

  • freedom>protection
    legalize it already

  • "“In strict medical terms marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume. For example, eating 10 raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death. Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."
    – Francis Young (DEA Administrative Law Judge – 1988])

    "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use…”
    – Jimmy Carter (U.S.President)

    “Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
    – Dan Quayle (U.S. Representative & Vice President)

    "Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could."
    “The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents.”
    – William F. Buckley Jr. (American conservative author & commentator)

    "The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
    – Dr. Carl Sagan (American Cosmologist, Astrobilologist, author & science communicator)

    “You bet I did -— and I enjoyed it.” ….when asked if he had ever smoked marijuana.
    – Michael Bloomberg (New York City Mayor)

    "Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
    – Kofi Annan (U.N. Secretary General)

    "Pot is a better drug than alcohol. I'll prove it to you. You're at a ball game or a concert, and someone's really violent and aggressive and obnoxious, are they drunk or are they smoking pot?"
    “Why is pot against the law? It wouldn't be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can't make a profit off it, would it?”
    “…It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit … unnatural?”
    -Bill Hicks (Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian)

    "If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
    – Terence McKenna (American ethnobotanist, author, advocate for responsible use of natural psychedelic plants)

  • A state licensed dispensary wouldn't offer your kids coke and meth like the drug dealer on the street.

    Just saying.

  • The republican party has done their best to keep marihuana illegal yet present itself as the party of freedom and small government .

  • Legalize it, FEDERALLY.

  • Minnesota just passed it making them 23rd state

  • Cannabis should be legal in Texas peace from california smoking that good wedding cake 🎂

  • They just beating around the bush.
    In a couple of years, it'll be legal.

  • So still not legal…. Texans get to watch freedoms expanded in other states while Texas bans books and criminalizes women’s health care decisions.

  • Overly concerned on drivers driving stoned but but not drunk drivers

  • Don't convince us we have better borders. Texas is a dumping ground

  • I moved to TX from Seattle, WA in 2019. Weed has been legal in WA since 2012. Moving here was like traveling back in time. Bizarre.

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