HB 3680 Passed Unanimously by House
HB 3680 would subject those found to be in possession of any amount of cannabis in the same place as someone under the age of 17 to one year in jail and $4,000 in fines.
Introduced by Representative Debbie Riddle, this bill hit the fast track, passed the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee and was passed by the house.
HB 3680 – read the full text here.
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FUCK THIS.
dont care i dont smoke with no youngunes
i dont think the bill is about smoking with minors, it is simply another way for them to further their pocketbooks!! There are other laws in place to protect the children from endangerment. This bill is stupid and way unnecessary! Why not tighten down on the child molestation laws! In our prison system child molesters do way less time than drug offenders. And every pedophile will commit the crime again and again, this is a proven fact…… there is not one documented case of rehab for these people. NOT ONE! But they continue to let these people out of prison while the drug offenders, (who can be rehabilitated) sit there crowding our prisons. IM ASHAMED TO SAY IM FROM SUCH A PLACE! Time to move!!!
so even if your kids dont know you smoke and somehow cops find a seed in your house… expect to lose your kids, your job, your freedom for a year and $4000. what a great idea…. i wonder how many families will be destroyed by this…
It doesn't matter if you smoke with them, you only have to be around them. Anywhere.
How do you feel about it now, dumb ass?
Hey Joe, it is not about smoking with younsters. If a 16 is the son of a friend and you go to your friend's house and a joint is found in your pocket, you could be thrown in prison for 1 year and fined $4,000. read the fine print. It also means if you walk through the park and a joint is found in your pocket.
This law is just another tool the system can use to feed the for profit prison system in Texas.
Whay I wrote to Texas Legislatures:
H.B. No. 3680 would increase the penalty for a person that had a marijuana cigarette in a location that also contained kids younger than 17.
Why do I care if I don’t use marijuana myself? I will tell you why, because I am tired of reading stories of Texas children being raped by pedophiles out on parole. Why were they out on parole to begin with? To make room in our overcrowded Texas prisons, mostly filled with non-violent drug offenders. This Bill will create many more nonviolent prisoners for our already overcrowded system. This bill has good intentions, but bad outcomes. If you want to spend $20k of my tax dollars to lock a person up for a year, spend it on keeping a person behind bars that has intentions of harming my children, not on a person that simply possessed marijuana, not a marijuana dealer, not even a person who actually exposed children to it, just a person who had 1 joint in their house. It is time we realize that we cannot afford to lock up everyone in Texas that we would like to, and this Bill just insures more sexual predators will be paroled, which I believe is unacceptable. Thank you for hearing my concerns.
Furthermore, children overdose or get messed up on prescription medication from the medicine cabinet all the time. Stop wasting billions of tax payers dollars and precious time by trying to enforce a law that contradicts our constitutional rights. I can think of a thousand more important issues that need to be addressed. If everyone that uses marijuana would come forward and stand up for thier rights then they would have no choice to legalize it. If they put us all in jail then our country would fall apart because the majority of the people that keep this country running, in one form or another, use marijuana. From congressman to factory worker we all have a part in keeping this country alive.
This bill makes no sense and is an outrage. Just because there is a minor in the house, or where ever you are, that doesn't mean you are going to let them smoke. What about the people that drink and drive with children in the vehicle. They are putting not only their life at risk but the childs' life as well. There are those who use marijuana for a chronic disease, to relieve pain and other ailments. A responsible adult isn't going to let thier child in the same room with them when they smoke much less give it to them. Seeing how a majority of adults that use marijuana have children, this is a direct attack against the casual smoker and should be stopped.
H Placed on General State Calendar 05/08/2009
H Considered in Calendars 05/06/2009
H Committee report sent to Calendars 04/29/2009
H Committee report printed and distributed 04/28/2009 08:00 PM
H Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator 04/28/2009 2135
H Reported favorably as substituted 04/23/2009
H Committee substitute considered in committee 04/23/2009
H Considered in formal meeting 04/23/2009
H Left pending in committee 04/15/2009
H Recalled from subcommittee 04/15/2009
H Considered in public hearing 04/15/2009
H Left pending in subcommittee 04/06/2009
H Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in subcommittee 04/06/2009
H Considered by s/c in public hearing 04/06/2009
H Posting rule suspended 04/06/2009 1085
H Subcommittee members named 03/30/2009
H Referred directly to subcommittee by chair 03/30/2009
H Referred to Criminal Jurisprudence 03/19/2009 797
H Read first time 03/19/2009 797
H Filed
SOUNDS FISHY, WHY DID IT GO FROM A PUBLIC HEARING,TO A FORMAL MEETING, I DONT THINK THEY LIKED WHAT THEY HEARD AT THE PUBLIC HEARING
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Of course. 3680 passes directly through state congress while 164 and 902 stagnate? Debbie Riddle, please remove yourself from office.
What a horrible bill. I can’t believe they are doing this. Wanna know why? It’s because “Big Pharma” has a corrupted stronghold on the people making these bills. “Big Pharma” includes drug companies, hospitals, doctors, insurance bigwigs, and of course law enforcement. They are making mammoth amounts of money pushing their toxic drugs. The lobbyists are running wild in Austin. Legalizing marijuana is the key to ending this madness. I might consider leaving Texas after 25 years, because of this bill. It’s a shame that this course that Texas is taking is really right in line with the policies of the worst president we’ve ever seen. I thought we were different here in Texas. What a shame that the whole problem with legilization across the country is because of the corrupted and toxic “Big Pharma” mafia. I can’t wait to vote for Kinky Freidman next time. Maybe he will bring some sense to Texas. Marijuana is the best medicine in the world. Fight for freedom!!
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Stall Tactics Kill Hundreds of Bills
Members of the Democratic Caucus spent the last several days holding the Local and Consent calendar hostage in order to avoid consideration of the Voter Identification bill. Tuesday night was the deadline to hear bills on the major or general state calendars. This means that every bill that was not heard by Tuesday is effectively dead. In order to revive bills, representatives could amend the proposals to a related bill on the local and consent calendar, or 2/3rds of the Representatives could vote to suspend the rules to consider a bill.
Before the stalling began, every bill that was set on the calendar moved through the process in the proper fashion and deserved consideration. Unfortunately, members of the Democratic Caucus decided to use parliamentary maneuvers to bring business on the House floor to a standstill for five days straight. The intent was to ensure that the voter identification did not make it to the floor for consideration. They succeeded in preventing consideration of the Voter ID bill, but the result was the death of hundreds of great bills that were not even considered.
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The responsible use of alcohol was ended by the 18th Amendment on January 29, 1919. This amendment was repealed by the 21st Amendment on December 5, 1933 when the state of Utah ratified it. The reason for the repeal of the 18th Amendment was because the U.S. Government realized that prohibition only created more problems than it solved. Drinking rates grew higher, crime increased. Millions of dollars were made by bootleggers and moonshiners who didn’t care if they were following the law or not. The most dangerous part about drinking was the criminal element involved with it’s manufacture and/or sale.
Today we have a similar situation. In 1937 the U.S. passed the “Marihuana Tax Act of 1937″. ‘The Act did not itself criminalize the possession or usage of hemp, marijuana or cannabis, but levied a tax equaling roughly one dollar on anyone who dealt commercially in cannabis, hemp or marijuana. It did, however, include penalty provisions and a complex Regulation 1 codifying the elaborate rules of enforcement marijuana cannabis or hemp handlers were subject to. Violation of these procedures could result in a fine of up to $2000 and five years imprisonment. The net effect was to make it too risky for anyone to deal in the substance until World War II required the United States Department of Agriculture to make its 1942 movie “Hemp for Victory”.’ – from the Wikipedia Article Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.
This act was later deemed unconstitional by the Supreme Court in 1969 during the case Leary v. United States because it violated the 5th Amendment since a person would have to incriminate him or herself to obtain the tax stamp required by law.
The government then passed the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and placed Marijuana on the List of Schedule I drugs. This means that it meets the following requirements:
(A) The drug or other substance has high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
If this were true then why is Marinol, a synthetic version of THC, the main active ingredient in Marijuana, only on the List of Schedule III drugs? To be on that list it meets these requirements:
(A) The drug or other substance has a potential for abuse less than the drugs or other substances in schedules I and II.
(B) The drug or other substance has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) Abuse of the drug or other substance may lead to moderate or low physical dependence or high psychological dependence.
This list also includes drugs like Tylenol 3 and Anabolic Steroids. So why is Marijuana illegal because of THC and Marinol is legal even though it’s synthetic THC?
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This was posted on May 15th. Is there any other Texas news on Cannabis. Ive looked everywhere and could not find anything. So I come to you for information.
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If anyone else is interested, you can go to this link to follow the progress (or lack there of) on HB 902– http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HB902
and HB 164— http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/BillStages.aspx?LegSess=81R&Bill=HB164
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As much as it may itself seem a fanaticism to compare Drug Warriorism with Nazism, the analogy is factual.
During 2006 the total Federal, State, and local adult correctional population — incarcerated or in the community – grew by 159,500 persons to over 7.2 million! The growth of 2.3% during the year was about the same as the average annual increase in the correctional population since 1995 (2.5%). About 3.2% of the U.S. adult population, or 1 in every 31 adults, were incarcerated or on probation or parole at year end 2006.
I believe authoritarians are manufacturing and manipulating public fears about drug use in order to create a police state where a much broader agenda of social control can be implemented, using government power to determine what movies we may watch, determine who we may love and how we may love them, determine whether we may or must pray to a deity. I believe the war on drug users masks a war on democracy.
After all, what is the vision of a Drug-Free America? Millions in prison or slave labor, and only enthusiastic supporters of government policy allowed to hold jobs, attend school, have children, drive cars, own property. This is the combined vision of utopia held forth by thousands of drug warriors. News media and “public interest” advertising tell us this is the America for which all good citizens yearn.
The drug war is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Do as the state tells you or be imprisoned. Remember, the punishment does not stop after release, the charge(s) brought against you will haunt the rest of your life. Jobs and housing will be denied. You will be relegated to a lower “caste” in society.
Future History will paint a bleak picture of this type of fanaticism. It is no crime (yet) to speak out against these types of policy. We should do so while we still can. We are dealing with fanatics and the only thing a fanatic understands is opposition to the party line.
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