When will marijuana be legal in texas?

About 10 years after gay marriage is.

^ Ha! Love it. GA x 100.

0ne month after the Bush family decides it can be a profitable crop.

@LuckyGuy Laughs, that’s so true. In Texas greed always topples principles.

@Adirondackwannabe is that why the population in Texas is booming. more people are moving to that state than any other? Jobs are plentiful and the standard of living is high?

M. Never. Never, ever, ever. NEVA!

@BeenThereSaidThat It’s not only in Texas where greed topple principals. It’s everywhere, in every single family.

@Dutchess_III Sorry but I don’t buy that tale. I think lazy people use ” the greed of wealthy people” as a scapegoat for their own failures. I am not wealthy by any means, just middle class. I don’t hate wealthy people. I know people with the same start I had who are more wealthy than me. In every case they worked harder, got more education and deserve what they have. I also could have pushed myself more and took some chances but I didn’t. That’s my fault only, I’m not going to spend my life crying about it and blaming everyone else.

Probably the same time it becomes legal in Idaho. But (tax revenue) money talks so maybe not too awful long…

Well, it’s not a tale, @BeenThereSaidThat. My sister’s greed has toppled every principal she ever had. I’m sure everyone has a similar story about a similar family member.

I don’t hate wealthy people either. My sister has worked hard for the base of what she has, but some of what she has was stolen from my Mother’s estate. She just couldn’t wait for Mom to die.

“stolen from my mothers estate” well, that explains a lot to me. Things like that happen for a reason. There has to be a way legally that she got what she did. A Will or bad blood between you and your mother. There is always a story. That is what we have courts for. If she gave something to your sister while still alive maybe she wanted your sister to get it.

Once the state Government wakes up, and realizes what a tax cash cow they can reap from it,until then they will continue to play red neck cow boy and spend millions on fighting it.

It’s a very long story, but she had Mom sign over all legal POA to her at some point. The thing was Mom was very easily manipulated, always has been, and had the beginnings of some sort of dementia and had no idea what she was doing.

Then my sister went and worked up a shamelessly self-serving will and had Mom sign it. She also had my Mother’s driver’s license renewed on the same day, even though she hadn’t been driving for 3 years at that point. Guess she had the idea that that would serve as some sort of back up in case any of this was questioned.

There was no bad blood between my mother and I. In fact, several years earlier she said she really wanted to change her will to leave everything to me and our other sister, and to leave the greedy sister out. I said, “Oh, God! Don’t do that! Mary (the greedy sister) would never talk to us ever again!” So, obviously there was another will but of course I could never find it.

I just let it all go.

It’s not just taking people to court to get what’s not doled out in an inheritance, it costs tens of thousands in attorneys’ fees to do so, whether successfully or not.

I spoke with my attorney. He said it would cost about $30,000!

Something similar to @Dutchess_III story happened in our family. Two sisters ended up paying about $35k to their attorney They don’t talk to the other sibling to this day, and they’re still out the 35k. Now if someone didn’t have 35k to initiate that, then they’d just have to let the whole thing go. That’s why I say it’s not just a “that’s what we have courts for” issue.

Courts are only for those who can afford to pay for justice. It’s a disgrace.

Ha ha! Mom got the last laugh in! She worked at Boeing in Seattle and had gotten a $2,000 POD insurance policy which she designated me as the recipient (I was a struggling single mother at the time.) After Mom died my greedy sister had taken everything she thought was of any monetary value and left the “junk,” including all of Mom’s financial records. I was looking through them and came across the policy and just laughed to my self.
My sister about flipped out when she learned of it. In the “Will” she crafted it stated I had to turn that $2,000 over to her, along with instruction that I and my other sister had to turn over every single thing Mom had “gifted” to us over the years and Mary would re-distribute as she saw fit.
I told her to shove it where the sun don’t shine! She demanded the $2,000. I told her I had given it to my attorney (and I had because that’s about what I owed him at the time) and told her to take it up with him.

She also freaked out when I mentioned the $1,000 she had sent our other sister. She said, “How did you know about that??!” (You left all her financial records behind, dumbass!)
I said, “Check number 2567, written on “this date.”
“How did you know??”
I said, “I know about 30,000 things you wish I didn’t know.” ($30,000 was the amount of the estate. She had put it into three $10,000 CDs in each of her 3 daughter’s name.)

She has barely spoken to me since, and it is so sad. We used to be best friends.

Not to rain on the parade, but is this relevant to marijuana legality in Texas?

No, but this is in social so chips are falling where they may.

Besides, how the hell could any of us know when Mary Jane is going to be legal in Texas?

I’d say that Texas is more likely disintegrate than allow that. True, not all Texans are hardcore Conservatives, but they still tend to be a bit…. traditional-minded. I see them more likely to replace their government with either clergy or corporate boards than to do something so liberal as to allow legal marijuana.
We are talking the same sort of people who will spend millions of taxpayer dollars to save a few thousand by kicking a small handful of pot-smokers off of public assistance. That’s speaks volumes about how fiscally responsible they are, as well as how much damage they are willing to do in order to furhter their ideology.

@LuckyGuy Look at Colorado. If Texas hasn’t already leaped on the chance to grab free money by tapping into an economy that already exists, then they’re putting principle ahead of revenue. Whether they’re too financially unsavvy to see the evidence (meaning their current economic success is luck) or are just willing to cut off their nose to spite their face, I can’t say. They’re leaving money on the table, so I’d wager that it won’t happen.

@BeenThereSaidThat WA state (in particular, Seattle) is also having such a boom. And I know people who got more education than me who wound up flipping burgers. Some previously held decent-paying jobs, some never did because education is no guarantee of employment. Also, while success usually requires hard work (except in cases of inheritance or luck), hard work doesn’t automatically mean success.
As for high standards of living, well, if you go solely by average wage versus cost of living, maybe. But with comparable GDP per capita combined with far lower dependence on federal funding, lower poverty rates, better education levels, and a whole slew of other metrics (medical care, education, social freedoms…), I’d say that Texas is lucky to be competitive with WA instead of blown out of the running the way much of the rest of that region is.
Regarding the social element, well, the Texans I’ve dealt with generally weren’t the most tolerant. so I can’t see living there unless you’re either a White, straight, Conservative Christian, or you’re moving to Austin. If that is false than they have a pretty big pile of evidence to disprove.

You’re entitled to your opinion though, but observable facts and historical evidence lead me to strongly disagree with you on many levels.

When it becomes legal nationally the Texas governor (whoever it is) will sue the federal government, because that’s how they roll in public, we can’t have any know-it-all in Washington telling us what to do. Then withdraw quietly when it’s clear they’ll lose.

So we’ll call it National legalization + 2 years?

Hopefully soon. I love Colorado, but the Winter just started and it’s too much already lol.

The reasonable answers have been covered.

My wildcard scenario is that T. Boone Pickens will push for legalization in TX and plant the friendly herb on the land under his wind farms.