{"id":351210,"date":"2015-05-07T02:26:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T07:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351210"},"modified":"2015-05-08T02:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T07:15:12","slug":"texas-house-committee-oks-full-marijuana-legalization-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351210","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Committee OKs Full Marijuana Legalization Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/David-Simpson2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/David-Simpson2-123x150.jpg\" alt=\"David Simpson2\" width=\"123\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-351211\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A proposal seeking full legalization of marijuana on religious grounds has cleared an unlikely legislative hurdle. Republican state Representative David Simpson of Longview argues marijuana comes from God and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be banned by government. The tea party stalwart has repeatedly championed what he calls the &#8220;Christian case&#8221; for legalization. Simpson&#8217;s bill languished for weeks before the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. Three committee Democrats and two Republicans surprisingly voted to support it Wednesday, though, and it passed 5-2. That makes Simpson&#8217;s bill eligible for consideration to reach the House floor before the legislative session ends June 1, although that&#8217;s still highly unlikely. State law currently makes no exceptions even for medical marijuana, making outright legalization unthinkable. Still, advocates hailed the committee vote as &#8220;unprecedented progress&#8221; for Texas marijuana rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP\/STAFF) \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A proposal seeking full legalization of marijuana on religious grounds has cleared an unlikely legislative hurdle. Republican state Representative David Simpson of Longview argues marijuana comes from God and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be banned by government. The tea party stalwart has repeatedly championed what he calls the &#8220;Christian case&#8221; for legalization. Simpson&#8217;s bill &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=351210\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas House Committee OKs Full Marijuana Legalization Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":351211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 06:10:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351212,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351210\/revisions\/351212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/351211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}