Marijuana is still very much illegal in Texas, and, whatever Governor Rick Perry says about “decriminalization”, it will remain so for the immediate future. But the tide of public opinion is turning fast, and it’s not so hard to imagine a day when Texas relaxes its weed ban. It almost seems like an inevitability.
That’s what Jerry Grisaffi is banking on. “Once the cities and the government start tasting the tax revenue, all the other BS goes away,” he says, referring to marijuana regulations in every state that’s not Washington or Colorado. Dallas Observer has more.