Sorry, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, consumable cannabis is not going anywhere, no matter how many business owners you try to bully or laws you seek to impose.
Even if you pass your priority bill to ban THC, the intoxicating ingredient in cannabis plants, Texans are still going to get high. They have since at least the 1890s, and they always will.
More than 50 years after President Richard Nixon’s war on drugs , prohibitionists like Patrick still don’t understand they cannot enforce their fundamentalist values on others. All they do is ruin lives and waste taxpayer’s money …