Everything’s bigger in Texas – including its legislators’ plans for marijuana legalization.
A bill that would make Texas the fifth state to legalize the drug doesn’t propose strict regulations or a state bureaucracy to enforce them. Instead, it would simply repeal state-level prohibition and open the door for an unbridled free market.
The idea – a significant divergence from states where legalization has been accompanied by frameworks to tightly regulate sales of the drug – appears surprisingly popular in the conservative state.
The Texas House of Representatives' Criminal Jurisprudence Committee passed the bill in a 5-2 vote on Wednesday night and it may be debated on the floor next week.
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