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Tag: Lt Governor

Top Ten Prohibitionist Lies

Written by Jay Maguire on March 7, 2025. Posted in Legislative, The Drug War.

The March 3 hearing showcased the best anti-THC talking points from the 1970’s, 80’s and beyond. Like a hit parade of bogus tunes, here’s the Top Ten Prohibitionist Lies

1. “Marijuana is a Gateway Drug”

• Falsehood: Using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like heroin or meth.

• Reality: Numerous studies, including from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), show no causal link between marijuana use and subsequent hard drug use. The real gateway factors tend to be socioeconomic conditions, trauma, or early exposure to addictive substances like alcohol and nicotine.

2. “Marijuana Causes Violent Crime”

• Falsehood: Legalizing marijuana increases violent crime rates.

• Reality: Crime statistics from states that have legalized cannabis (e.g., Colorado, Washington) show no significant rise in violent crime—and some cities have even reported decreases. In contrast, illegal drug trade violence often decreases when legal markets replace black market sales.

3. “Marijuana Lowers IQ and Makes People Lazy”

• Falsehood: Long-term cannabis use reduces intelligence and destroys motivation.

• Reality: Studies show no significant IQ drop in adults who use cannabis. While adolescent overuse may impact cognitive development, occasional adult use has not been linked to measurable declines in intelligence. Moreover, many successful professionals and creatives openly use cannabis without suffering motivational issues.

4. “Marijuana is as Dangerous as Heroin and Fentanyl”

• Falsehood: Cannabis is a “Schedule I drug” because it’s highly addictive and has no medical benefits.

• Reality: Marijuana is not chemically addictive in the way opioids or nicotine are, and it has established medical benefits for pain, epilepsy, PTSD, and more. In fact, it is far less harmful than alcohol and prescription painkillers.

5. “Legalization Leads to More Teen Use”

• Falsehood: When states legalize marijuana, more teenagers will start using it.

• Reality: Studies from The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Colorado Department of Public Health show no increase in youth marijuana use post-legalization. In fact, some states have seen decreases in underage use due to better regulation.

6. “Marijuana Kills Brain Cells”

• Falsehood: Smoking weed permanently destroys brain cells.

• Reality: This myth originated from a flawed 1970s study where researchers suffocated monkeys with excessive cannabis smoke, depriving them of oxygen. Modern neuroscience shows that cannabis affects brain function but does not destroy brain cells.

7. “People Overdose on Marijuana”

• Falsehood: Cannabis use leads to lethal overdoses.

• Reality: There are zero recorded deaths from cannabis overdose. While high doses can cause discomfort, anxiety, or nausea, it does not suppress respiratory function like opioids.

8. “Legal Marijuana States Have More DUIs and Traffic Accidents”

• Falsehood: Marijuana legalization leads to more impaired driving and crashes.

• Reality: While THC can impair driving ability in some cases, overall crash rates have not spiked in legal states. Many studies indicate that drunk driving is a far bigger problem than cannabis-impaired driving.

9. “Marijuana Has No Legitimate Medical Use”

• Falsehood: There is no scientific evidence supporting medical marijuana.

• Reality: Cannabis is FDA-approved for multiple conditions, and studies confirm its effectiveness in treating epilepsy (CBD), chronic pain, nausea from chemotherapy, PTSD, and multiple sclerosis. The U.S. government even holds a patent on cannabinoids for their neuroprotective effects.

10. “Marijuana Legalization Harms the Economy”

• Falsehood: Legal weed will damage businesses and hurt the economy.

• Reality: Legal cannabis is one of the fastest-growing industries, generating billions in tax revenue, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, and reducing costs related to law enforcement

Dear Grandma, Lt. Gov Dan Patrick is coming after your Hemp Products

Written by Jesse Williams on April 29, 2024. Posted in Texas Legal & Regulatory News.

I hope that this finds you doing well, but your grandson has some concerns about your near future.

 

I’ve tried telling you in the past that he was looking into ways he could do this. I remember you telling me that there was nothing on the news about it, so it must be my wild imagination. Well, it’s on the news now if you didn’t see.

 

Our Lt Governor just put out a written list of legislative priorities for the next legislative session. One of them is exactly this grandma. Banning Delta 8 and 9:  Examine the sale of intoxicating hemp products in Texas. Make recommendations to further regulate the sale of these products, and suggest legislation to stop retailers who market these products to children.

 

Nana, we both know you’re no kid. And I hope you know better than to believe that anybody in this state was making products with the hopes that children would get their hands on them. And nobody is trying to argue that the retailers should even be allowed to sell to children. I know that you like the packaging that reminds you of some of your favorite candies, but it’s not like that to get kids involved. It’s like that because it reminds you of your favorite candies and it helps you decide which ones better suit your taste.

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And it’s not just the gummies and Dan and his senators will be going after. They will go after any flower products, oils, tinctures, and even the salves you use on your joints. When they say ban the intoxicating substance grandma, they mean to ban the very thing that gives you relief at the chemical level, not the final product level.

 

The legislature doesn’t know of a way of banning just the end product without allowing some sort of base product that could be used in a way they don’t approve of. They just find it easier to ban the substance altogether. And this substance, it’s naturally part of the plant. All of the work spent creating viable crops with a market that would buy any end product, gone. Out the window. 5 years of hard work across an entire industry will be wiped out. You’ll be left with nothing to use, and the economy will take a giant hit too.

 

Oma, I’m telling you that over 19 billion dollars in economic action will take a major hit, if not wiped out from the ban. I know that nineteen billion sounds like a joke number to you at times. But one of those big economic firms called Whitney Economics with a load of qualified professionals, reported last year about these numbers. Over one and a half billion dollars was spent on wages in this state alone. That’s over a hundred million dollars in social security funds that are helping to cover your current check from social security. Yeah, you can be mad about it possibly running out, but it won’t help if the state is slashing funds going into the pool of money.

Grams, it won’t help if they cut 5,000 businesses from the market and destroy 50 thousand jobs. It will put a toll on the unemployment system and possibly take a major hit on increasing the homeless population. It will take a hit on families that started these businesses with everything they own as investment to see it succeed. The government isn’t going to bail out a business it tries to cut.

 

Abuela, I know that you had access in other states and in one of the places you lived before retirement that it was the equivalent of a parking ticket for getting caught. It’s not like that here in Texas. If you have flower it’s class B misdemeanor which means a huge fine and jail time. If you have the gummies and oil, it’s jail time from being a felony. Por el amor de Dios Abuela, te ruego que tomes esto en serio. Al estado de Texas no le importa un carajo tu vejez.

 

Older people are making up a bigger population of the prison system grandma, and it’s coming from new arrests and not just people getting old in the system. I don’t want to see you becoming one of them. Those people don’t get almost any of their proper meds. Your special diet for your heart and blood sugar, doesn’t exist.

 

I’m not asking for people to be able to sell to kids. It hasn’t really been an issue. I don’t think anybody would have a problem with requiring only adults to be able to purchase it over the counter. We’re not needing marketing legislation either, grandma, it already exists to stop companies from ripping off other products’ trademarks. We both know kids like anything flashy and shiny, but that doesn’t mean we ban everything flashy and shiny does it?

Just remember this for the next 6-7 months Grandma as election campaigns start asking for your opinion. You have to let them know you don’t want to lose your therapeutic hemp products. You have to remind them that addressing imaginary or minor problems with a ban doesn’t fix anything. Holding people responsible for careless behavior that hurts others, that’s a solution.

 

Anyways Grandma, I can’t wait to see you again and have some of those cookies and that tasty pecan pie you make every time. It’s my favorite. Has been since I can remember you making it for me back when you said I was a big boy that didn’t need a highchair anymore. Hugs and kisses.

 

Te amo abuela.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jesse Williams

 

 

 

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both Jay Maguire from the Texas hemp Federation and Jesse Williams from the Texas cannabis Collective joined the discussion this week regarding sb3 and the state of several bills in the 89th Texas Legislature. Countdown only 2 weeks remain!

WILL HEMP SURVIVE IN TEXAS?

Bad Science, Bogus Raids, and Bad Bills
Testing Issues 
Law Enforcement Raids
Timely Regulatory Bills 

Will Hemp Survive? 

www.texashempreporter.com 
Www.BlazedNews.com

both Jay Maguire from the Texas hemp Federation and Jesse Williams from the Texas cannabis Collective joined the discussion this week regarding sb3 and the state of several bills in the 89th Texas Legislature. Countdown only 2 weeks remain!

WILL HEMP SURVIVE IN TEXAS?

Bad Science, Bogus Raids, and Bad Bills
Testing Issues
Law Enforcement Raids
Timely Regulatory Bills

Will Hemp Survive?

www.texashempreporter.com
Www.BlazedNews.com

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REEFER MADNESS: Bad Science, Bogus Raids, and Bad Bills

Blazed Weekly News May 16, 2025 2:45 am

Nick Mortillaro and Shaun Salvaja talk with Rachel and Russ about the language in the House adaptation of SB3. It is initially not a good looking bill for fans of Smokable Hemp.

And reads as though HB28 has turned into SB3 for the time being. Next the full House of Representatives will vote on the bill.

We urge you to reach out to your congressman and say NO TO SB3!

We need education for lawmakers to understand the industry better before rushing to push the laws banning these products and an industry.


#txhempshow #media #podcast #radio #magazine #blazednews #health

www.texashempreporter.com
www.BlazedNews.com

Nick Mortillaro and Shaun Salvaja talk with Rachel and Russ about the language in the House adaptation of SB3. It is initially not a good looking bill for fans of Smokable Hemp.

And reads as though HB28 has turned into SB3 for the time being. Next the full House of Representatives will vote on the bill.

We urge you to reach out to your congressman and say NO TO SB3!

We need education for lawmakers to understand the industry better before rushing to push the laws banning these products and an industry.


#txhempshow #media #podcast #radio #magazine #blazednews #health

www.texashempreporter.com
www.BlazedNews.com

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Is SB3 Now HB28? Moves to House for Vote

Blazed Weekly News May 2, 2025 12:44 am

Today's panel features Cynthia Cabrera and Mark Bordas with the Texas Hemp Business Council... the two discuss policy expectations and legislative movement within the language of several bills that are up for review in the house.

the open discussion with Russell and Mark and Cynthia is informative and eye-opening as the panel discusses federal law, Texas law, and the battle between the states rights against big alcohol, big Pharma, and multi-state operators.

38 Days left in the 89th Legislative session. 

#espnaustin 
#printisnotdead 
#magazine 
#podcast 

#txhempshow

Today's panel features Cynthia Cabrera and Mark Bordas with the Texas Hemp Business Council... the two discuss policy expectations and legislative movement within the language of several bills that are up for review in the house.

the open discussion with Russell and Mark and Cynthia is informative and eye-opening as the panel discusses federal law, Texas law, and the battle between the states rights against big alcohol, big Pharma, and multi-state operators.

38 Days left in the 89th Legislative session.

#espnaustin
#printisnotdead
#magazine
#podcast

#txhempshow

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Cynthia Cabrera & Mark Bordas: Legislative Update 89th Legislative Session

Blazed Weekly News April 25, 2025 1:57 am

April - 420 Show - Live Gruene Botanicals San Antonio

April 21, 2025 • 59 mins
Live from central SA TX at Gruene Botanicals, with food, graffiti, infused drinks, a smoke box , live DJ and more . . .
We podcast record this weeks show from the parking lot on Hildebrand with Sean and James.

Sean owns 4 locations of Gruene Botanicals while James owns 3GCC, both are loyal sponsors of the show and we all got together
on the Saturday before Easter/420 for an event that celebrates the culture of this wonderful plant.

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April - 420 Show - Live Gruene Botanicals San Antonio

April 21, 2025 • 59 mins
Live from central SA TX at Gruene Botanicals, with food, graffiti, infused drinks, a smoke box , live DJ and more . . .
We podcast record this weeks show from the parking lot on Hildebrand with Sean and James.

Sean owns 4 locations of Gruene Botanicals while James owns 3GCC, both are loyal sponsors of the show and we all got together
on the Saturday before Easter/420 for an event that celebrates the culture of this wonderful plant.

PODCAST # 213 LIVE EVENT!

Check them both out here:
https://www.gruenebotanicals.com/
https://www.3gccllc.com/


Our Show Page:
https://www.1027espn.com/show/blazed-weekly-news/

to sponsor the show email:
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