Lawmakers are struggling to balance demands for medicinal cannabis products with a wildly growing market that is outpacing meaningful regulation.

When Texas state Sen. Charles Perry sat down this week in a packed room at the state Capitol to hear testimony on whether to ban some psychoactive hemp products from being sold in the state, he already knew what was coming.

The Lubbock Republican’s 2019 agricultural hemp legislation — a bipartisan, farmer-friendly bill — had opened up the state’s hemp industry and, in doing so, touched off a massive new consumable hemp market in Texas as well.

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Texas Supreme Court rules against women who say their lives were endangered by state abortion ban

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Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum

The proposed curriculum overhaul was released a week after the Texas GOP proposed requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. School districts that opt to use them will get more funding.

Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.

The Texas Education Agency released the thousands of pages of educational materials this week. They have been made available for public viewing and feedback and, if approved by the State Board of Education in November, will be available for public schools to roll out in August of 2025. Districts will have the option of whether to use the materials, but will be incentivized to do so with up to $60 per student in additional funding.

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Texas GOP Wish List Includes Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

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Texas’ Attorney General Is Increasingly Using Consumer Protection Laws to Pursue Political Targets

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Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - Republican Jay Furman will face Democratic U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar in the November general election, after defeating Texas rancher Lazaro Garza on Tuesday in a party primary run-off election. Furman, a military veteran, won the Republican nomination for Texas' 28th congressional district, according to the Associated Press. He led Garza by an overwhelming 64% to 36% with 45% of votes counted.

Cuellar and his wife were indicted on federal charges accusing them of accepting bribes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and a bank based in Mexico. They have denied wrongdoing.

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Texas' governor is spending millions & using anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric to defund public education

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@MarioNawfal

🇺🇸 TORNADO DESTROYS TEXAS MARINA

Footage of the devastated docks in the Valley View area of Texas.

Tornado damage has been reported in several Texas areas, including Denton, Sanger, and Celina, leaving numerous buildings severely damaged and breaking multiple power lines.

Source: Times Now News

@MarioNawfal

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: MASS CASUALTY EVENT DECLARED IN TEXAS

A violent tornado has hit Valley View, Texas, causing the roof of a Shell truck stop gas station to collapse, trapping up to 150 people.

Rescue efforts are hampered by downed power lines and debris.

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/1794599874903826603

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706 people named Kyle got together in Texas. It wasn’t enough for a world record

How many people named Kyle can fit in one place? For one Texas city, not enough.

Another attempt by the city of Kyle, Texas, to break the world record for the largest gathering of people with one name fell short Saturday despite 706 Kyles of all ages turning up at a park in the suburbs of Austin.

The crown is currently held by a town in Bosnia that got 2,325 people named Ivan together in 2017, according to Guinness World Records.

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‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify

But “as it gets warmer earlier, we see a larger amount of mosquitoes earlier,” said Max Vigilant, director of mosquito and vector control in Harris County, where Houston is located. “We are getting hotter temperatures earlier.”

“This is the impact that climate change has had on Harris Country,” Vigilant added.

[Description: A high voltage power-line tower is laying on its side behind a high voltage tower still standing. In the background, four more towers tilt at a precarious angle.]

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Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks

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Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks