Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks at a press conference at the Texas Capitol on June 23 in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to veto Senate Bill 3, which would have banned the sale of THC products in Texas.

Petitions asking Gov. Greg Abbott to veto SB3, which would restrict THC, are displayed at a news conference on the last day of the 89th Texas Legislature at the Capitol in Austin, Monday, June 2.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick displays a range of intoxicating THC products available in Texas to illustrate his concerns that seemingly harmless snacks and drinks pose a danger to public health among children and adults. He urged reporters during a news conference to “take this story seriously,” as Senate Bill 3, which bans all THC products and has been sent to Gov. Greg Abbott's office, May 28, 2025.

Texas A&M undergraduate Clay Moore puts pollen on a legal cannabis Friday, April 8, 2022, in College Station. The cannabis plants greenhouse, each containing no more than the legal limit of THC in Texas. These hemp plants can be grown and sold legally.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and his teetotaling allies are going to ban retail THC gummies, drinks and flowers in Texas, killing 50,000 jobs and a $5 billion-a-year industry that most Texans support.

Gov. Greg Abbott, who vetoed Patrick’s first attempt to ban THC, is folding under pressure from the Texas Taliban. Six weeks after he proposed reasonable regulations that respected Texans’ right to choose whether to use delta-8, delta-9 or THCA products, Abbott says he will ban retail products that contain THC, the active ingredient in cannabis that gets people high.

“The only hemp product that’s going to be out there is non-intoxicating hemp, which is below 3 milligrams of THC,”........

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