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Texas Republican primary voters oppose a proposal to ban hemp products containing THC that lawmakers recent sent to the governor\u2019s desk, according to a new poll.<\/p>\n
While Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has declined to say how he\u2019ll act on SB 3<\/a>\u2014which advocates and stakeholders say would decimate the state\u2019s hemp industry\u2014the policy change evidently isn\u2019t being embraced by voters, including a plurality of Republicans (47 percent) who voiced opposition, the survey from Ragnar Research Partners, commissioned the Texas Hemp Business Council (THBC), found.<\/p>\n The council said opposition to the proposal is \u201ceven stronger among those who have an active-duty or former member of the military in their household.\u201d<\/p>\n Further, the poll showed that 72 percent of Republican voters feels that veterans should have access to THC products as an alternative to opioids. Another 53 percent said the proposed ban under SB 3 will \u201ccreate opportunities for drug cartels\u201d and increase illicit market sales.<\/p>\n \u201cTexans do not want SB 3,\u201d Mark Bordas, executive director of THBC said in a press release on Wednesday. \u201cTexans recognize SB 3 for what it is: an attack on the rights and liberties of Texans that will destroy tens of thousands of jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe respectfully ask the Governor to listen to veterans, small business owners, Republican primary voters and others who want him to veto this heavy-handed bill. We went out of our way to conduct the most credible poll possible, in which the segment of the voting population least likely to support our cause was queried,\u201d he said<\/a>. \u201cEven among Republican primary voters, SB 3 and its ban are highly unpopular. This is not a Republican or a Democrat issue\u2014it\u2019s about preserving economic and individual freedoms, which all Texans cherish.\u201d<\/p>\n Overall, 68 percent of Texas primary voters are against the proposed hemp ban, compared to just 20 percent who back it, a separate survey from March found.<\/p>\n \u201cThese highly credible polls clearly show where voters stand, while some groups are pushing false and misleading narratives to support SB 3, hoping that more Texans would turn to alcohol if hemp-based products were banned,\u201d Bordas said. \u201cEvery month in Texas, nearly 90 lives are lost to alcohol-related crashes, over 1,000 each year. Nationwide, alcohol ranks among the leading preventable causes of death. Hemp products, which are already regulated at the state and federal levels, offer popular alternative that many Texans rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOur industry also continues to support additional safeguards, including banning sales to anyone under 21 and setbacks from schools,\u201d he said. \u201cTexans deserve legal choices, not fear-driven policies that push them toward more dangerous substances.\u201d<\/p>\n The latest survey involved interviews with 800 likely Republican primary voters from June 2-4, with a +\/-4 percentage point margin of error.<\/p>\n THBC separately delivered more than 100,000 petition signatures last week asking Abbott to veto the measure<\/a>.<\/p>\n The governor has three options for the proposal: sign it, veto it or allow it to take effect without his signature. The deadline for his decision is June 22.<\/p>\n Last month, a spokesperson for the governor similarly declined to disclose Abbott\u2019s plan for the bill, saying only that he \u201cwill thoughtfully review any legislation sent to his desk.\u201d<\/p>\n Texas lawmakers legalized the sale of consumable hemp in 2019, following enactment of the 2018 federal Farm Bill, which legalized the plant nationwide. That\u2019s led to an explosion of products\u2014including edibles, drinks, vape products and cured flower\u2014sold by an estimated 8,000 retailers.<\/p>\n Military veterans advocates, including\u00a0Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars, have called on the governor to veto the hemp ban<\/a>, saying it \u201cwould cause irreversible harm to communities across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n Farmers have also said the prohibition would\u00a0devastate a key sector of the state\u2019s agriculture industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2014 Last month, meanwhile, the Texas House passed a pair of bills designed to\u00a0ensure speedy access to psychedelic-assisted therapy<\/a>\u00a0in the event of FDA approval, but they did not clear the Senate by the end of the session.<\/p>\n More recently, lawmakers passed a bill to significantly expand the state\u2019s medical marijuana program<\/a>, sending it to the governor.<\/p>\n The measure would expand the state\u2019s list of medical cannabis qualifying conditions to include chronic pain, traumatic brain injury (TBI), Crohn\u2019s disease and other inflammatory bowel diseases, while also allowing end-of-life patients in palliative or hospice care to use marijuana.<\/p>\n Separately in Texas, a House committee approved a Senate-passed bill last month that would prohibit cities from\u00a0putting any citizen initiative on local ballots that would decriminalize marijuana<\/a>\u00a0or other controlled substances\u2014as several localities have already done despite lawsuits from the state attorney general.<\/p>\n Under the\u00a0proposal, state law would be amended to say that local entities \u201cmay not place an item on a ballot, including a municipal charter or charter amendment, that would provide that the local entity will not fully enforce\u201d state drug laws.<\/p>\n While several courts have\u00a0previously upheld local cannabis decriminalization laws<\/a>, an appellate court comprised of three conservative justices appointed by the governor has recently pushed back against two of those rulings, siding with the state in its legal challenge to the marijuana policy in\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0San Marcos<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite the ongoing litigation and advancement of the House and Senate bills, Texas activists have their targets set on yet another city, Kyle, where\u00a0they hope put an initiative before voters to enact local marijuana reform<\/a>\u00a0at the ballot this coming November.<\/p>\n A recent poll found that\u00a0four in five Texas voters want to see marijuana legalized in some form<\/a>, and most also want to see regulations around cannabis relaxed.<\/p>\n South Carolina GOP Governor Says There\u2019s \u2018Compelling\u2019 Case For Medical Marijuana As House Leader Remains Skeptical<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n Photo courtesy of Kimzy Nanney<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Texas Republican Voters Oppose Hemp Ban Bill That\u2019s Pending On Governor\u2019s Desk, Poll Shows<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Texas Republican primary voters oppose a proposal to ban hemp products containing THC that lawmakers recent sent to the governor\u2019s desk, according to a new poll. While Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has declined to say how he\u2019ll act on SB 3\u2014which advocates and stakeholders say would decimate the state\u2019s hempContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":81629,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81630,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81628\/revisions\/81630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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