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1 minute ago, MissingInAction said:

I wish. Cant be in public until my wbc is normal next week.

There’s a party downtown near 5th Street.

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Sorry if I'm slow with my thoughts, but I'm going to assume that a law allowing wastewater to be reused is not really about finding a reuse of the water or frankly even disposing of it. If O&G can "safely" reuse wastewater for agriculture, then why not allow them more access to more groundwater. They'll return x% of it back to the river or agriculture canals at a later date. Let's face it, O&G wants 100% of Texas water so they need to identify how to sell that argument. 

In a way, it reminds me how the chemical industry came up with the idea of plastic recycling. Not because they wanted to reduce landfill waste or that they wanted to buy recycled plastic. They wanted to shift the blame of plastic waste in our environment away from them. Chemical companies aren't the bad guy, it's your neighbor who refuses to separate their trash. This gives the chemical companies more of a market because the consumer doesn't feel bad about choosing plastic.

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Still waiting for action on SB3. My prediction is that he doesn’t sign it, allows it to pass into law, and then calls a special session to “fix it” before it takes effect

I bet he doesn't sign it in the next hour and then just washes his hands of it and say its Dan's fault if needed.

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So…yesterday wake-up to see we may be at war with Iran (currently in the UK).  Today wake-up up to Abbott being sensible to kill SB3.  Welcome back to 2025.  
 

Gov statement, special session to apply common reasonable regulation (absolutely want child resistant packaging because even if we keep ours in a lockbox, many don’t)


https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/VETO_proclamation_SB_3_IMAGE_2025-06-22.pdf

Assume Abbott did this for his own political play as a Pub prez candidate, to extract money from the industry, or just put Patrick in his place as a preemptive maneuver.  Regardless of reasons:

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Pretty interested to find out what the real reasons are that Abbott vetoed SB3 because the stated legality issues/because it was the right thing to do just don’t seem like something he would go to absolute war with Lt Dan over… gotta be more to the story

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“Texas must enact a regulatory framework that protects public safety, aligns with federal law, has a fully funded enforcement structure and can take effect without delay,” Abbott said.

In a statement explaining his veto, Abbott argued that SB 3 would not have survived “valid constitutional challenges,” and that the bill’s total ban “puts federal and state law on a collision course,” noting that the 2018 federal Farm Bill legalized hemp products.

“Allowing Senate Bill 3 to become law — knowing that it faces a lengthy battle that will render it dead on arrival in court — would hinder rather than help us solve the public safety issues this bill seeks to contain,” Abbott said. “The current market is dangerously under-regulated, and children are paying the price. If Senate Bill 3 is swiftly enjoined by a court, our children will be no safer than if no law was passed, and the problems will only grow."

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/state/texas-thc-ban-delta-8-9-vetoed-greg-abbott-special-session/287-cca31320-9394-470e-8e69-04477de760e6

 

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1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Pretty interested to find out what the real reasons are that Abbott vetoed SB3 because the stated legality issues/because it was the right thing to do just don’t seem like something he would go to absolute war with Lt Dan over… gotta be more to the story

Real reason is even he thinks Dan Patrick is a clown

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1 hour ago, Homercles said:

Assume Abbott did this for his own political play as a Pub prez candidate

For the first time, we benefit from his delusional angling for a presidential run. 

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19 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Real reason is even he thinks Dan Patrick is a clown

If this is true I may have to actually apologize for a small portion of the mean things I have said about Abbott...

small portion...
 

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34 minutes ago, cactusflinthead said:

“Texas must enact a regulatory framework that protects public safety, aligns with federal law, has a fully funded enforcement structure and can take effect without delay,” Abbott said.

In a statement explaining his veto, Abbott argued that SB 3 would not have survived “valid constitutional challenges,” and that the bill’s total ban “puts federal and state law on a collision course,” noting that the 2018 federal Farm Bill legalized hemp products.

“Allowing Senate Bill 3 to become law — knowing that it faces a lengthy battle that will render it dead on arrival in court — would hinder rather than help us solve the public safety issues this bill seeks to contain,” Abbott said. “The current market is dangerously under-regulated, and children are paying the price. If Senate Bill 3 is swiftly enjoined by a court, our children will be no safer than if no law was passed, and the problems will only grow."

https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/state/texas-thc-ban-delta-8-9-vetoed-greg-abbott-special-session/287-cca31320-9394-470e-8e69-04477de760e6

 

You could make most of those same arguments against the 10 commandments law but here we are….

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1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Pretty interested to find out what the real reasons are that Abbott vetoed SB3 because the stated legality issues/because it was the right thing to do just don’t seem like something he would go to absolute war with Lt Dan over… gotta be more to the story

 

34 minutes ago, tx ind said:

Real reason is even he thinks Dan Patrick is a clown

The governor doesn’t care about Dan Patrick at all. He wants to be president.
 

I would bet folding money that his polling of GOP primary voters in Iowa and New Hampshire shows that whereas SB3 could hurt his chances, legalized THC for adults + abortion ban + vouchers is a good combination.

A losing fight for the 10 commandments is also a winner.

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1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

If this is true I may have to actually apologize for a small portion of the mean things I have said about Abbott...

small portion...
 

Y'all are so cute.  He wants to replace it with something even worse.

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3 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Y'all are so cute.  He wants to replace it with something even worse.

for once I don't think so, Abbott could have easily just let SB3 go into effect (didn't even have to sign it) and then laid all the blowback from legal challenges and really bad public opinion at Lt Dan and the Lege's feet, but instead stuck his neck out to veto it and call a special session that appears to have the aim at regulation of THC to a similar degree as alcohol.

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“A guy I know” just told me that the governor has realized that Dan Patrick and the Dunn faction is out of sync with the base on this. The data is telling his team that legal THC is broadly popular, and more importantly, has no political downside in the 2028 GOP primary field.
He sees this as an opportunity to polish his resume and restore his brand without giving up any red meat conservative street cred. 
For this special session he is looking for a a signature win: a broad, bipartisan bill with both Democratic and Republican majorities if possible, and is open to literally anything short of full marijuana legalization provided that it advances his chances in a presidential campaign. 
 

Take it for what it’s worth, because I can’t verify any of that, but my guy knows the right people.

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19 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

“A guy I know” just told me that the governor has realized that Dan Patrick and the Dunn faction is out of sync with the base on this. The data is telling his team that legal THC is broadly popular, and more importantly, has no political downside in the 2028 GOP primary field.
He sees this as an opportunity to polish his resume and restore his brand without giving up any red meat conservative street cred. 
For this special session he is looking for a a signature win: a broad, bipartisan bill with both Democratic and Republican majorities if possible, and is open to literally anything short of full marijuana legalization provided that it advances his chances in a presidential campaign. 
 

Take it for what it’s worth, because I can’t verify any of that, but my guy knows the right people.

tell your guy to tell hotwheels that full legalization would greatly help any political aspirations he has. can only go up from zero, right?

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Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

tell your guy to tell hotwheels that full legalization would greatly help any political aspirations he has. can only go up from zero, right?

After visiting several dispensaries in CO, IL, and CA, I can say that full legalization is not all it’s cracked up to be. Far fewer options are available in legal states. Shit, Total Wine on 183 has 10-20x the selection of THC drinks compared to the best-stocked legal state dispensary I’ve been to. 

Hopefully the Leg figures out a way to regulate the current market without shrinking it. I actually think the House bill that Patrick killed would have been a good approach. 

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13 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

After visiting several dispensaries in CO, IL, and CA, I can say that full legalization is not all it’s cracked up to be. Far fewer options are available in legal states. Shit, Total Wine on 183 has 10-20x the selection of THC drinks compared to the best-stocked legal state dispensary I’ve been to. 

PFFFT

 

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15 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Still waiting for action on SB3. My prediction is that he doesn’t sign it, allows it to pass into law, and then calls a special session to “fix it” before it takes effect

Nvm. Can’t read good.  

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1 hour ago, DaysOff said:

He's really running for POTUS? He's not even a real man. Legs and dick don't work. Sad.

I laughed WAY too hard at this.

Thank you.

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BTW- the text of his Statement seems like he’s saying the objectives were good but the bill would not survive a challenge, but the list of suggestions he makes for legislation coming out of a special reads more like a regulatory framework for recreational THC products. 
 

In other words:

Its Happening Ron Paul GIF

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4 hours ago, BrickHorn said:

After visiting several dispensaries in CO, IL, and CA, I can say that full legalization is not all it’s cracked up to be. Far fewer options are available in legal states. Shit, Total Wine on 183 has 10-20x the selection of THC drinks compared to the best-stocked legal state dispensary I’ve been to. 

Hopefully the Leg figures out a way to regulate the current market without shrinking it. I actually think the House bill that Patrick killed would have been a good approach. 

show me a good problem to have. anytime you can cut out the black market is a good step in the right direction, imho. it will undoubtedly be messy to start and possibly for a while, but decriminalization is the necessary step here. I would trade legality for red tape any day

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53 minutes ago, Bookman said:

We can haz legal weed?

 

38 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

You'll get nothing.  And like it.

Or just ask your friends coming from Colorado to just pack some in their checked luggage and bring you back some edibles

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49 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

abbott about to drop new taxes on thc / thc products 

We have that on tobacco and alcohol already don’t we? I don’t think many would care as long as there was a path to legality.

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10 minutes ago, tx ind said:

We have that on tobacco and alcohol already don’t we? I don’t think many would care as long as there was a path to legality.

These idiots will tax it at 300% and use the money for "education" (They'll buy "Baby Billy's Bible Bonkers" games for their $10K/yr online private schools)

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