The Senate, led by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a longtime opponent of legalization, has consistently blocked the legislation.
Elle Cross, right to justice coordinator with Mano Amiga, helps people register to vote Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, on the Texas State University campus in hopes they will vote in favor of the City of San Marcos’ Proposition A on the ballot in the November 8 election. Prop A would decriminalize some lower level marijuana charges.
“Possessing a small amount of cannabis is still illegal, we’re just addressing it in a smarter way than we do now,” Moody said as he laid out the bill on the floor Wednesday. As the state Legislature has stalled on the issue, some Texas cities and counties have moved to set their own decriminalization policies.that allows anyone caught with less than 4 ounces of marijuana to avoid an arrest, ticket or court appearances if they agree to take a four-hour drug education class.
Possessions of one ounce and under make up “a huge number of our cases,” Clay Abbott said. “Nobody would be clogging up jails with this, nobody would be clogging up county court dockets with this. I would say a lot of prosecutors find that a very appealing idea.”
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