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Texas Senators Unanimously Pass Hemp THC Ban Bill Hours After Governor Convenes Second Special Session
The Governor of Texas has again called a special session again by lawmakers directing legislation in advance, regulating consumer hemp and setting the age limit to access cannabinoids. After a few hours, a Senate committee quickly and unanimously accepted the reinterrodial invoice, HEMP thc products to call the government’s Gover’s GOB Abbott (R).
After the legislators of democratic houses Abbott made a ride on the first special call session-Bameum is a quorum of the State Congress map protesting the protest of the redistribution plan. The session cannot last more than 30 days under the state constitution, but no limit is called how it can be called.
On the same day, Abbott named a new session, the Senate State Committee quickly exceeded the reinvented hemp invoice Charles Perry (r) from the husband 9-0 votes.
Legislation would continue to distribute cannabis products to the CBD and CBG cannabinoids “Any amount”. In addition to owning a banned cannabis element, it would be punished as a class of class B, 180 days in prison and a fine of $ 2,000.
The final proclamation of the governor also has renewed the call of legislation “Becoming a crime to children derived from hemp to children under 21”
While setting the invoice of Perry moved through the Commission, he said in his latest proclamation because he wanted to see a measurement that would normally regulate the “harmful products, including limiting compounds, without blessing the compounds of synthetically derived, all harmful products.”
Heather Fazio at the Texas Cannabis Policy Center, the director of Texas, is disappointed by the group “that he is disappointed” is not discontinued by the Senate.
“This is another strange prohibition in Thc products,” he said. “Most Texanes agree with the governor Abbott: Texas legislature should be regulated, not banned products.”
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The initial version of the governor demand The second special session said the cannabinoid product must be an age-gated age to ban access to under 18 years, but it was immediately revised and relented on reasons for non-existing reasons.
The proclamation of the new session also determines that the regulations do not ban “legal hemp products” because the proclamation of the first session refers to the “legal agricultural goods”.
Hemp advocates and industry actors say that the state market effectively eliminated, there are few businesses that manufacture CBD or CBG isolated products that do not have traces with THC or other cannabinoids. The federal law allows products to 0.3 percent of 0.3 percent through dry weight.
An invoice similar to Perry passed the Senate in the first special session, but did not continue at home.
The other new invoice He presented the second special session of the Republic. Charlie Geren (R) governor’s directive would follow, so that harmful hemp products can only be purchased for 21 and over.
Before the end of the first special session, the House Public Health Committee He took advantage of the bill for banning street consumer products Having THC, without taking action.
Abbott observed a previous version of the controversial proposal It was passed through this regular session, and he recently passed what he wanted to see a revised version of the invoice.
Some, including Dan Patrick (r) and Senate protection Perry, have emphasized public security since the legalized federal reproduction. Others, legislatures prevent access to market and maintain massive industry and maintain massive industry and maintain mass industry and maintain massive industry and maintain massive industry and maintain mass industry and maintain massive industry.
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Meanwhile, abbott in June He signed the bill to the State list of medical conditions in the list of medical listsChronic pain, with traumatic brain injury (TBI), adding other diseases of the crohn disease and inflammatory bowel, and also allows the end of life to take care of the palliative care or hospital for the use of marijuana.
Texas Officials This week took another step to carry out this law-Enk the draft of the proposed rules, doctors recommend that they recommend new Qualification requirements of cannabis and create regulations to create authorized inhalation devices.
About a week after the Department of Citizens Security (DPS) was seen by a separate set of rules Increase the number of licensed dispensers below recently overcome legislation.
In the first special session, Nicole Collier (d) presented the bill, HB 42, designed to protect the consumer from the state if they believed that Legal halmal product Thc excessive amountsbecoming an illegal marijuana. He would avoid the criminalization of someone who is owned by a product labeled as a hemp, but it is determined to have a “controlled substance or marijuana”.
To obtain the person protection, the product bought a store that a store was allowed to sell a detrimental consumer product. “
Other Bill-HB 195, Rep. Jessica González (D) –People aged 21 and over would be legalized by Marijuana, allowing you to have 2.5 ounces of cannabisMore than 15 grams of this number is not concentrated in the form.
Another proposal would require the state officials to take a request for application.
As for those who want to see the Texas from their representatives, Texas Kaltega Industry Intoxicating intoxicating intoxicating intoxicating shared new intoxication data Most respondents of the most important political parties indicate that they illegally leave synthetic cannonoids, such as delta-8 thc.
The survey also found that the respondents will obtain cannabis therapeutic products through the State Licensed Marijuana Program, from unpunished hemp non-disabled sales. “
Before the governor, in June of SB, the previous hemp products and actors had The 100,000 application delivered more than the signature by asking Abbott to reject the size. Critics argued that the industry uses 53,000 people calculated, if the measure became a law.
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A Florida bill to significantly reduce the fee for military veterans to obtain medical marijuana registry identification cards has cleared another legislative committee.
The House Health and Human Services Committee approved the measure by Reps. Susan Valdés (R) and Michelle Salzman (R) on a 22-0 vote Tuesday. This comes after the legislation cleared two other House panels and Senate legislation to reduce the cost of cannabis for veterans is also advancing.
If enacted into law, HB 887 would require honorably discharged veterans to pay $15 to obtain a medical cannabis card, down from the current $75 rate for most eligible patients.
The $15 charge will also apply to replacement cards as well as annual renewals.
To receive the reduced fee, veterans must provide the state Department of Health (DOH) with a copy of the discharge form, a US Veterans Affairs (VA) identification card, or a Florida driver’s license with a “veteran designation.”
The law will come into effect on July 1 of this year.
“Medical cannabis has shown promise in alleviating symptoms commonly experienced by our military veterans, such as managing chronic pain, easing the effects of PTSD, improving sleep, and most importantly reducing opioid addiction,” Valdés said before the final committee vote. “This bill will go a long way in reducing the financial barriers veterans face when getting a card.”
According to A invoice study, the reform “would have an unspecified negative fiscal impact on the DOH.” While there are currently 931,000 registered medical marijuana patients in Florida, “the number of veterans with an active medical marijuana use registry identification card is unknown” and thus “the amount of revenue reduction is unknown.”
That said, the analysis says the policy change “would have a positive fiscal impact on veterans who will see a $60 reduction in the cost of ID cards under the bill.”
Earlier this month, the Senate Health Policy Committee advanced a bill by Sen. Alexis Calatayud that would reduce medical cannabis registration fees for veterans to $15 and implement other reforms to expand access to medical marijuana.
Under that amended proposal, a physician would recommend a 70-day supply limit for cannabis, or a 35-day supply limit for marijuana smoking products for 10 supply limits. Under current law, they can recommend up to three 70-day supply limits for non-smoking cannabis and six 35-day supply limits for smoking marijuana.
The SB 1032 bill would also require doctors to evaluate patients to qualify for medical marijuana every 52 weeks, rather than the legal requirement of evaluations every 30 weeks.
Here’s an overview of some of the pending Florida marijuana bills:
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Meanwhile, a The Florida campaign seeking to put marijuana legalization on the ballot has another complication As the status of the 2026 signature drive remains in dispute. According to a new electoral law, the hundreds of thousands of activist signatures already collected this year will not be carried over to the 2028 cycle.
Smart & Safe Florida recently shipped An appeal of the annulment of about 71,000 signatures to the state Supreme Court For the 2026 order, for example.
The courts again agreed to close a separate case involving legal review of the ballot measure From Smart & Safe Florida, he has now been given another case challenging the cancellation of the earlier mass signature.
In December, advocates filed a lawsuit in Leon County Circuit Court alleging that Secretary of State Cord Byrd (R) illegally ordered county election officials to invalidate about 42,000 signatures from so-called “inactive” voters and about 29,000 signatures collected by out-of-state petitioners.
That lawsuit came after another court upheld an earlier decision to strike with about 200,000 signatures, which the state said were invalid because the petition did not include the full text of the proposed initiative. The campaign challenged the legal interpretation, but declined to appeal the decision, confident it had collected enough signatures to settle the dispute.
Smart & Safe Florida has generally disputed the secretary of state’s signature count, confirming that the campaign has submitted more than 1.4 million petitions, hundreds of thousands more than the 880,062 valid signatures needed before voters.
In return for the signature, Florida’s attorney general and several businesses and anti-marijuana groups has asked the state Supreme Court to block the cannabis initiativecalling it a “fatal flaw” and unconstitutional.
The Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Legal Foundation and Judge Frank Shepherd filed another joint document, stating that the parties “remain particularly vigilant about the abuse of the citizen initiative process by out-of-state interests who believe that Florida is another market and that the citizen initiative process is another means of exploiting that market.”
The Florida Chamber of Commerce has consistently opposed attempts to move forward with adult-use legalization, as well his polls have shown a majority in favor of reform.
The campaign fought several legal battles this cycle to get its initiative on the ballot.
Last month, the state attorney general’s office opened dozens of criminal investigations and subpoenaed Smart & Safe Florida and its contractors and subcontractors for records over alleged fraud related to the application effort.
Activists said in November they had collected more than a million signatures to put the cannabis measure on the ballot, but still He has sued state Supreme Court officials for delaying the certification processarguing that the review of ballot content and summary should have gone ahead several months ago when the initial signature threshold was reached. The state then he agreed to proceed with the processing.
The governor campaigned hard against an earlier version of the legalization proposal, which received a majority of voters in 2024, but was not enough to meet the 60 percent threshold needed to pass a constitutional amendment. Former Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) unsuccessfully challenged the earlier initiative in court.
Last March, however, two Democratic members of Congress representing Florida asked the federal government to investigate What they described as an “illegal diversion” of millions in state Medicaid funds Through a group with ties to DeSantis. The money was used to fight a popular ballot initiative the governor vehemently opposed that would have legalized adult marijuana.
The lawmakers’ letter alleges that a $10 million donation from a state legislative settlement was misappropriated to the Hope Florida Foundation, which later sent the money to two political nonprofits, and sent $8.5 million to the anti-Amendment 3 campaign.
The governor said last February The latest measure to legalize marijuana is in “big trouble” with the state Supreme Courthe announced that it would be blocked from going before the voters this year.
the last the initiative It was introduced to the secretary of state just months after initial versions failed in the November 2024 election, despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement.
Smart & Safe Florida expressed optimism that the revised version would be successful in 2026. The campaign — which received tens of millions of dollars from cannabis industry players in the last election cycle, notably from multi-state operator Trulieve — introduced some changes in the new version that address criticisms of the 2024 push by opponents.
For example, it now specifically states that “smoking and vaping marijuana in any public place is prohibited.” Another section states that the legislature should adopt rules governing the “time, place and public manner of consuming marijuana.”
In 2023, the governor accurately predicted this The campaign’s 2024 cannabis measure would survive a legal challenge From the state attorney general. It’s not entirely clear why he thinks this version will face a different outcome.
Although there is uncertainty about how the state’s highest court will navigate the measure, a poll released last February It showed the overwhelming support of a bipartisan voter for reform— 67% of Florida voters support legalization, including 82% of Democrats, 66% of independents and 55% of Republicans.
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