[PRESS RELEASE] – AUSTIN, Texas, June 2, 2025 – Texas farmers, entrepreneurs, veterans and small businesses leaders Standing together Calling on Gov. Greg Abbott must protect Texas jobs and personal freedom by vetoing Senate Bill 3
Texas Governor has 20 days to act on bills to expand medical cannabis and ban hemp THC
S.B. S.B. Republicans and Democrats across the state are angry and concerned since the Texas Legislature Read more about S.B. 3. Sending it to Abbott for him to decide if it should be made law.
On June 2, representatives from the Texas Hemp Business Council also handed out 5,000 letters, and an increasing number of them. More than 118,000 people signed a petition to Abbott urging him not to sign S.B. The bill would save the jobs of 53,000 Texas workers who are involved in hemp.
Cynthia Cabrera said, “Senate Bill 3 aimed to kill a thriving and legal industry.” Cabrera was the President of Texas Hemp Business Council. The bill is now awaiting Governor Abbott’s review. “We respectfully ask him to carefully consider all the facts and listen to our plea, then make the rational decision to veto S.B. 3.”
Cabrera has also addressed the scare tactics of Lt. Governor. Cabrera addressed the recent scare tactics used by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick tried to get S.B.
“Make no mistake, the idea that ‘no one knows what’s in these products’ is false,” Cabrera said. For the last six years Texas law mandated that third-party laboratory testing and clearly labeled products. These scare tactics are designed to intimidate legislators and public officials into supporting an agenda that they didn’t ask for.
S.B. S.B. This will create chaos and uncertainty among farmers, business owners and other individuals who have dedicated years to the production of hemp-based goods.
Tara Latil is the owner of CBD American Shaman. “This bill was not intended to regulate us,” she said. “It’s designed to bury us in fees, paperwork and fines until we have no choice but to shut down and walk away, leaving the market wide open for a few wealthy players who’ve been quietly funding this ban from the sidelines—not to mention an unregulated black market.”
Veteran protesters have been particularly vocal against S.B. The reason many veterans are against S.B. 3 is that hemp products regulated by the government have proven to be more effective than prescribed drugs in treating them.
Mitch Fuller said, “Senate Bill 3 would take away hemp-derived products, an alternative to opioids and antidepressants, that the VA had been negligently shoving into our mouths over the past 25 years.” Fuller was the National Legislative Chair of VFW Department of Texas as well as the Chairman of VFW National Legislative Committee. Don’t steal from us something that actually works. Hemp-derived products work. “They have saved thousands of vets in this state, and millions of people across the nation from the toxic cocktail of antidepressants and opioids.”
Abbott will decide by June 22 whether to sign or veto the bills, and whether they become law with his signature. Over the past few weeks, more Texans are voicing their support of hemp grown legally and regulated.
“Prohibition did not work in the 1920s for alcohol, and it will not work now for hemp—not with e-commerce and an American public that’s more mobile than ever,” said Mark Bordas, executive director of the Texas Hemp Business Council. Border security and cartels are still the top concerns of Texans. The CDC says that fentanyl kills the most Americans between 18 and 45. The cartels won’t care if the ban is unenforceable because they didn’t bother getting licensed in Texas.
As lawmakers debate S.B. 3’s future, rural communities—many of which rely heavily on hemp production—are bracing for economic fallout.
Colton Luther said, “There is a big threat here to rural economies.” He was the managing partner of Geremy Greens Farm. Colton Luther, managing partner at Geremy Greens Farm said: “Most of the businesses and farmers that I am familiar with are located in rural communities. We are also losing money and jobs in these areas.”