A THCa hemp flower is shown at the Cobo Dispensary, 4403 Buck St. in Houston on March 14.

Howdy is one of the non-alcoholic seltzer brands from Bayou City Hemp.

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.

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Last week, Patrick strutted into the press conference room at the Texas Senate, where he rules with an iron fist. He threatened laws and lawsuits against businesses that sell THC products, such as delta-8 and delta-9 gummies.

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“My recommendation is if you're watching – I know a lot of people are watching out there who are in this business – you might want to voluntarily close your doors,” Patrick said. “Because the........

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