Getting high on cannabis is already legal in Texas. We’re just not admitting it. Nor are we getting the benefits from fully legalizing it, writes columnist Michael Taylor.
Tia Angie Villescaz talks in February at Texas State University about her support for putting cannabis decriminalization on the November ballot for San Marcos residents.You have probably noticed retail stores offering CBD products popping up practically everywhere since 2018 and 2019, using clever images and phrases to indicate that CBD — a completely legal extract of the hemp plant — might offer an effect similar to marijuana.
To me, though, that has always sounded like noise. I continue to believe the attention given to CBD is driven primarily by the somewhat universal human interest in getting high.The federal farm bill made hemp legal in 2018, and Texas followed suit in 2019. The legal distinction between marijuana and hemp — both derived from the same species of cannabis plant — is the concentration of the psychoactive extract THC. In Texas, a product that contains less than 0.
Shortly after Texas legalized hemp in 2019, the district attorneys in Harris and Bexar counties announced they would not prosecute most cases of marijuana possession, citing fear of not being able to distinguish between hemp and marijuana without rapid and accurate testing. In 2020, the Austin City Council ended arrests, fines and testing for marijuana possession, further effectively decriminalizing use, at least in big cities in Texas.
Here’s the main thing I learned: Delta-9 in a chocolate bar, sold legally and openly in the first CBD store I walked into, gets you stoned. This week, I asked a couple of regular marijuana users I know whether they have switched to using Delta-8 or Delta-9 products from a CBD store instead of illegally acquired marijuana. Neither had done so, citing the practical ease of acquiring illegal marijuana and the low risk of possessing it in a low-enforcement city. But they also weren’t aware of the potency of the CBD store-bought products as I described it to them.
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