{"id":8489,"date":"2025-06-23T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8489\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:56:10","slug":"texas-governor-vetoes-bill-that-would-ban-all-thc-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8489\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas governor vetoes bill that would ban all THC products"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas — 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’s 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’ 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’s 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 — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill Sunday to ban all THC consumables, allowing the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[9725,347,64,9062,57,330,210,3344,50,80,9060,61,67,132,68,237],"class_list":{"0":"post-8489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-9725","10":"tag-article","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-food-safety","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-government-programs","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-marijuana","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-retail-and-wholesale","20":"tag-u-s-news","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-vaping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114733736569153965","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489","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=8489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}