Uhh are you just figuring this out? Have you ever looked at the powers and groups that are aligned against legalization? It’s why we’ve had so little movement on the federal level in the classification of weed as a schedule I narcotic. It’s all about the money. Big Pharma wants no competition, the liquor industry opposes it, the cartels hate it, trial lawyers don’t want a money train to evaporate, the treatment industry lives on court ordered referrals, police departments get fed interdiction money, govt profits from massive asset seizures, on and on. Most states have fucked up their weed legalization efforts with overregulation, overtaxation, and no effort at other benefits. Were I elected governor I would put together a great group to study how best to use cannabis for the best benefits of Texas. First I would charge A&M to develop the finest strains of weed along the lines of a Texas 1015 onion. I would use the UT Medical Systems to be a world leading weed research facility charged to study the hundreds of cannabinoids in the plant to learn the many God given benefits of this plant for the benefit of the world and owned by the people of Texas rather than Big Pharma. To restore small town Texas in agriculture and processing enterprise zones would be created to bring money and jobs to those areas only on Texan owned land. Chinese and foreign ownership would be prohibited and the use of shell corps a near capital crime. Drug cartels would be ruthlessly hunted down and cross border pursuit by the Texas Guard and Air Guard used to clear the border while our great Texified weed becomes the standard of the world. I haven’t smoked dope since 1982. I believe in the magic of this plant medically for many ailments and believe it can help our opioid addicted veterans who are killing themselves daily. I believe anyone opposed to legal weed is at best a fool but most likely one profiting from it remaining illegal. Every politician opposed is likely owned by either drug traffickers or big Pharma or both. I think this is a rare opportunity for Texas to use to help our state and the world .