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.

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[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ironically, (correct me if I am wrong, this is something I’m half remembering,) when Weed and hemp cross pollinate, the Hemp genes are dominant and make the thx producing plant stop (or reduce) THC production. So if you wanted to kill off weed isn’t planting hemp everywhere the way to do it? (Please don’t do it)

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago

You expect republicans to understand science?

[–] SynonymousStoat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm pretty sure there are a lot of places that grow indoors so this tactic wouldn't really do anything to them. I'd wager there are lots of seeds and clones of thc producing cannabis which would be protected from this. I'm also not sure that you could ensure a whole crop was cross pollenated with hemp, so you could probably "damage" a portion of a crop, but not the whole thing.

[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Patrick wants to ban thc products like delta-8 and the other delta variants you can buy from vape shops. He's not really trying to ban non-psychoactive hemp, at least, not as a priority.

Luckily, piss baby Abbott must get enough ~~bribes~~ ~~gifts~~ lobbying to not be his usual flavor of cruelty-is-the-point evil on this particular issue.