Texas’ booming hemp industry has survived another effort to ban intoxicating products.
Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s push to prohibit hemp-derived THC has died for the year after the Legislature adjourned its second special session Wednesday night.
“After long discussions last night between the Governor, Speaker, and me on THC, and continued hours of discussion today, we were not able to come to a resolution,” Patrick said Wednesday night on X.
The lowest of hanging fruit, but I am glad for the public that won’t be housed in jail cells and the dispensaries that are hanging on by their fingernails during all of this uncertainty. Also, fuck criminal Dan Patrick.