MONITORING THE SITUATION (4/13/26)

Win for the weed bros, L for the gay bros, and an RPT chair announcement.

Here are situations in Texas we are monitoring just for you:

• WEED: UNCANCELLED

• GAY STUDIES: CANCELLED

• Another Republican Party of Texas Vice Chair Announcement

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Texas Fun Police Blocked from Banning Gas Station Weed by Judge

Texans can continue to smoke weed, which is apparently sold at gas stations.

People are saying they also sell a drink at gas station similar to opioids? There are a lot of questionable things sold at gas stations nowadays, but not gas stations owned by Americans like Race Trac and Quick Trip. If you just look around and see who’s actually selling the sketchiest gas-station poisons, doesn’t it seem like it almost entirely the ones run by immigrants?

Texas Tribune:

A Travis County district judge has temporarily lifted a statewide ban on the sale of natural smokeable hemp products, such as flower buds and rolled joints, until at least April 23.

Judge Maya Guerra Gamble granted the Texas Hemp Business Council, Hemp Industry & Farmers of America, and several Texas-based dispensaries and manufacturers a temporary restraining order against new testing requirements that creates 0.3% total THC threshold, effectively eliminating smokeable products. Lawyers for the hemp industry argued that the agencies have overstepped their constitutional authority by rewriting the statutory definitions of hemp established by lawmakers in 2019.

The concept of the new total THC testing came from the federal government, which clarified the definition of hemp in November as containing a total THC concentration of less than 0.3% on a dry weight basis rather than only delta-9 THC, according to Zachary Berg, an attorney with the Texas Attorney General’s Office who represented Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on Friday.

How is every plant or every package supposed to be tested?

“Yo dawg, you got some of that 0.3%?”

Banning gas station weed will do disproportionate harm to the immigrant community. It’s is a backdoor ban for Pink Floyd laser light shows being synced to The Wizard of Oz.

If someone wants to open a new store called “0.2999%” you’ll basically position yourself as the market leader on day 1. That’s a free business tip for readers, because rigging government regulations is the only real way to make good money in this wonderful economy.

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Texas Tech Cancels Gay Studies

Buns of Steel Brandon Creighton has shown up at Texas Tech and is immediately starting to straighten it out.

Texas Tribune:

Texas Tech University System’s chancellor on Friday ordered campuses to phase out academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity — a dramatically expanded policy that also places limits on what can be researched and which faculty can be hired.

Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s memo gives provosts until June 15 to identify targeted programs and requires the system’s five universities to freeze admissions and halt students from declaring majors in the phased out programs. Students already enrolled can finish their degrees.

Feels good!

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Sandra Whitten Announces Run for Vice Chair of the Republican Party of Texas

The race for Republican Party of Texas (RPT) Chair continues to heat up as Sandra Whitten has announced her run for RPT Vice Chair:

The video above was posted by the Webb County Republican Party Facebook page last week.

Whitten has run several times for congress.

No news on who her running mate might be. But the field for RPT chair/vice-chair is starting to fill up with more to announce.

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