Chelsie Spencer
03-24-2025
I have spent a very large portion of my day responding to actual threats to the licensed premises and employees of our medical dispensing organizations here in Texas, including posts encouraging Texans to go out and break the storefront windows of our licensed dispensing organizations. And yes, law enforcement is very aware.
This nonsense needs to stop. Now.
If you are one the individuals espousing this utter and complete nonsense that it is our three, extremely limited dispensing organizations behind SB3, you are wrong.
The sole driving force behind SB3 is Dan Patrick. It always has been. His personal beliefs about cannabis and hemp are not remotely favorable, and his intentions were to bring this ban bill about sooner.
Riddle me this: if our medical cannabis lobby was so purportedly strong and effective as so many of you seem to think it is, why is the scant expansion bill that the industry fought tooth and nail for this year still sitting in the Senate? Why is the program still run by state law enforcement with every proposed move to our state regulatory health agency denied? Why do we have the world's tiniest list of qualifying conditions? Why the lowest milligram cap? Why no overnight storage? Why has the program made little to no progress in TEN YEARS?
Super powerful corporate lobby there, guys.
Facts are indisputable. On a spending basis, the hemp industry substantially, and I do mean substantially, outspends medical on lobbying in Texas and has done so for the seven years we have had the program (and understandably so, considering medical cannabis remits a gigantic portion of its revenue right back to the federal government due to 280(e)). There are phenomenally more registered lobbyists lobbying for hemp than there are for medical cannabis.
Stop this nonsense. You want to be angry that someone is potentially stealing your livelihood? Get mad at the right person -- then turn that energy toward the House, where your fight has always been.
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