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  • 4 days ago | kut.org | Katy McAfee |Maya Fawaz

    Todd Harris was mentally preparing to move out of the state and spend the next few years buried in debt as he waited for Gov. Greg Abbott to take action on Senate Bill 3. If signed into law, SB 3 would have banned all consumable hemp products containing THC in Texas, shutting down thousands of cannabis shops, including Harris’ own business, Happy Cactus. In the final hour before his deadline, Abbott vetoed the bill.

  • 4 days ago | hppr.org | Katy McAfee |Stephanie Federico

    Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale in Texas of most products containing THC, the compound in cannabis that gets people high. In announcing the veto just before a midnight deadline, the governor said he would call a special session July 21 to debate the legislation further. Senate Bill 3 would have unraveled Texas' $8 billion hemp industry and cost an estimated 50,000 people their jobs.

  • 4 days ago | tspantx.com | Katy McAfee |Stephanie Federico

    Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale in Texas of most products containing THC, the compound in cannabis that gets people high. In announcing the veto just before a midnight deadline, the governor said he would call a special session July 21 to debate the legislation further. Senate Bill 3 would have unraveled Texas’ $8 billion hemp industry and cost an estimated 50,000 people their jobs.

  • 5 days ago | kut.org | Katy McAfee |Stephanie Federico

    Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale in Texas of most products containing THC, the compound in cannabis that gets people high. In announcing the veto just before a midnight deadline, the governor said he would call a special session July 21 to debate the legislation further. Senate Bill 3 would have unraveled Texas’ $8 billion hemp industry and cost an estimated 50,000 people their jobs.

  • 5 days ago | tpr.org | Katy McAfee

    Tesla's robotaxis will "tentatively" start driving around Austin on Sunday, Elon Musk said on X. The company is starting out with a small fleet of roughly 10 cars, which will travel around what Tesla considers to be the city's "safest areas.""It's not going to take intersections unless we are highly confident [it will] do well in that intersection," Musk said in an interview with CNBC.

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