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Speaker 3: And now it's time for Benson's weekday up Day, featuring
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Speaker 2: Here Kevin's not here today.
Speaker 4: I'm Senate Bill three, and I would like to ban
Speaker 4: the possession, sale, and manufacture of all THC products miss
Speaker 4: Picky Babe.
Speaker 2: Sorry, that was dumb. That was really good.
Speaker 4: This would also include Delta eight THHC, which Texas lawmakers
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen were like, hey, fine, yeah, we can
Speaker 4: have it.
Speaker 2: They legalized it then. So last night was the deadline.
Speaker 4: Governor Greg Abbott's got all these bills standing on his desk.
Speaker 2: And he's reading them, and he's been getting letters.
Speaker 4: From all kinds of people, and he said, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: call here, you can get up to that midnight deadline,
Speaker 4: and he decided to veto the THCHC ban bill. So
Speaker 4: for now, this multi billion dollar hemp you know, industry
Speaker 4: gets to survive another day. Fifty five thousand jobs saved.
Speaker 2: For now. Christine's in their clapping, It's like, hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, saving jobs, saving job, more jobs in this economy,
Speaker 4: let's go. This also will benefit military veterans, anyone who's
Speaker 4: dealt with some traumatic stuff and they rely on these
Speaker 4: THHC products, you know, to help them get through.
Speaker 1: So I think this is one of the most fascinating
Speaker 1: things that's happened in Texas politics in a long time.
Speaker 2: I absolutely thought this was going to get banned.
Speaker 1: Well, you know him, he's never really said anything about it,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he stayed out of it is
Speaker 1: an indication that, you know, he's not going along party
Speaker 1: lines on this, and there are things to consider and
Speaker 1: it is a complex issue. And you know, you guys
Speaker 1: have heard me say this a million times on the air.
Speaker 1: I thought weed and gambling would be legal in Texas
Speaker 1: much sooner rather than later because of the economic impact.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, this is a very red state, and
Speaker 1: for the most part, economics is what drives, you know,
Speaker 1: the red constituency. And we have this independent state that
Speaker 1: operates autonomously for all these reasons, for business purposes.
Speaker 2: But this is their unique area.
Speaker 1: Where a lot of people want to put morality into
Speaker 1: this sort of thing. And so the fact that Abbot
Speaker 1: held out to the last minute and then vetoed it
Speaker 1: and said, hey, we need to do a special session
Speaker 1: in July, to me at least as an indication he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not on board with this.
Speaker 2: We are letting a part of our party.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm some strictly the red because this is Texas, man,
Speaker 1: the moral part of the party. Ramrod something home that
Speaker 1: a lot of us don't necessarily believe in. We need
Speaker 1: to talk through this and we're not just gonna let
Speaker 1: Dan Patrick pound the table and get what he wants.
Speaker 1: This is really unique that Abbot waited to do this
Speaker 1: and did it the way that he did. Who's more
Speaker 1: powerful of those two guys, That's a great question. It
Speaker 1: really comes down to the money that's backing them, and
Speaker 1: in a lot of cases, you know, it's a lot
Speaker 1: of the same money that's backing them. But you know,
Speaker 1: KT had this article from Texas Monthly that he read
Speaker 1: last week talking about and like, if you're family has
Speaker 1: been from Texas for a long time, like mine has,
Speaker 1: you probably have some Baptist roots in your family.
Speaker 2: I do, and that's always had a.
Speaker 1: Really strong foothold in the rural areas of Texas, and
Speaker 1: so things like gambling and alcohol, Like, dude, remember Ben
Speaker 1: when you couldn't buy out when we were junior, you
Speaker 1: couldn't buy alcohol on Sundays.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I you know, we've had friends who you know,
Speaker 5: I never knew too much about it, but we have
Speaker 5: had friends who are like practicing Baptists, and they'd be
Speaker 5: like having to go over in the shadows to they
Speaker 5: don't want to be seen drinking. They don't want to
Speaker 5: see to be drinking publicly. But they did drink public
Speaker 5: you know, they did drink.
Speaker 1: If Uncle Johnny was out of family function, there was
Speaker 1: no alcohol.
Speaker 2: If Uncle Johnny wasn't there, the booze was flowing, baby.
Speaker 1: And so my whole point is that, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a strong part of the of the Red part of
Speaker 1: our state is the old Baptist constituency, and they very
Speaker 1: much are not against They're very not down with gambling,
Speaker 1: not down with THC, not down with alcohol, and a
Speaker 1: lot of those things. And it's a political rub and
Speaker 1: it's not one of those things. It's just cut and
Speaker 1: dry that all Republicans believe the same on because there
Speaker 1: is a lot of money. And also in general Red
Speaker 1: states are very very pro military, and dude, I can't
Speaker 1: tell you how many dudes I know that we're in
Speaker 1: the military that smoke because yes, the stress, yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: And so it's just there's new ways of thinking about
Speaker 1: things that don't go along with the old guard. And
Speaker 1: you know, I give kudos to Abbott for not just
Speaker 1: rubber stamping this because he's because there's such a strong
Speaker 1: part of his part and quiet the marijuana time because
Speaker 1: he doesn't agree with it, and We're in an era
Speaker 1: when we were younger, people in the same political party
Speaker 1: could disagree on stuff.
Speaker 2: It was healthy.
Speaker 1: It's how laws get made, it's how you find consensus.
Speaker 1: Now everyone's scared to go against anybody in their own part.
Speaker 4: But by the way, let me just say weed's not legal.
Speaker 4: Hundreds of this conversation could lead your wrong way, do right.
Speaker 4: Delta eight TC is just a it's a it's a
Speaker 4: form of TAC that you can compound with CBD or
Speaker 4: something else that's like less psychoactive.
Speaker 2: So that's just that's important to say.
Speaker 4: Like this, like weed's free now, but it's like those
Speaker 4: drinks that we talk about, CBD gummies and things like that,
Speaker 4: and a lot there's a lot of shops you know,
Speaker 4: in places like that, so crazy stuff. Dude.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. Coming up next, we'll catch up on sports.
Speaker 2: Let's talk Game seven of the NBA Finals DFW. That's
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