{"id":7741,"date":"2025-06-23T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7741\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:26:12","slug":"abbott-vetoes-texas-bill-to-ban-thc-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/7741\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott vetoes Texas bill to ban THC products"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill Sunday to ban all THC consumables<\/a>, allowing the booming market<\/a> flush with THC-infused vapes, gummies and other products to continue to be sold across the state.<\/p>\n

Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final moment to veto the bill in what would have been one of the most restrictive THC bans in the country and a significant blow to the state\u2019s billion-dollar industry.<\/p>\n

The law would have made it a misdemeanor to own, manufacture or sell consumable THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, products and was the latest push by states to regulate THC<\/a> after a 2018 federal law allowed states to regulate hemp, a similar plant to marijuana that can be synthetically processed to produce THC, the compound giving marijuana its psychoactive properties.<\/p>\n

Loopholes in existing law have allowed many THC-infused goods to enter the market across the country, including states with strict marijuana laws.<\/p>\n

Texas has some of the strictest marijuana laws in the country, prohibiting all recreational use and providing a limited medical marijuana program. The consumables market has allowed residents to legally access goods giving a similar high to marijuana.<\/p>\n

Republican lawmakers have criticized the products as dangerous due to a lack of federal oversight in how the goods are manufactured. Texas\u2019 ban is one of the more far-reaching among states that have taken similar steps. Several states, including California, have imposed age limits and restrictions on the potency of THC products.<\/p>\n

Critics of the Texas bill say it allows people who cannot access marijuana through the state\u2019s medical marijuana program to acquire goods that can provide a similar relief. Many retailers across the state also pointed to the thousands of jobs and millions in revenue the industry brings each year.<\/p>\n

Last year, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill that would have put age restrictions on THC consumables, claiming it would hurt small businesses.<\/p>\n

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Lathan is a corps member for the Associated Press\/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America<\/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill Sunday to ban all THC consumables, allowing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[64,2059,276,6064,723,9062,57,330,5026,210,9061,3344,50,80,9060,358,5028,61,67,132,68,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-7741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca-state-wire","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-fl-state-wire","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-food-safety","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-government-programs","17":"tag-greg-abbott","18":"tag-health","19":"tag-james-clemmer","20":"tag-marijuana","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-retail-and-wholesale","24":"tag-texas","25":"tag-tx-state-wire","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-vaping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114732203063151471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}