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As a native Texan who has lived here all my life, I am very pessimistic about recreational marijuana ever being legal here. The only way I can see it happening is as follows:It is legalized at the federal level and the federal government threatens to cut funding to states that do not comply. This seems unlikely. It seems more likely that the government will leave the issue of recreational marijuana to state governments.There is a mass relocation of people who support full legalization from the rest of the country to Texas. Although many people are moving here, it has not been enough to sway the political status quo of this state. I suspect the people moving here are less concerned (if not at all) about social justice issues and are more concerned with work and making money.The US government and Texas government collapse and there are no more laws. Technically, it wouldn’t be ‘legal’ but at least then the State of Texas wouldn’t be incarcerating you for its use.Oil field automation eliminates record numbers of jobs and turns Texas blue. Although oil field automation is happening it is unlikely that the disposed of work force, made mostly of working class Texans from exurban and rural towns, will vote Democrat. That’s because the Republicans have successfully played identity politics here and the Republican party of Texas does not support recreational legalization at all.You have to understand Texas culture and economics. Texans do not want anything interfering with commerce or the potential for commerce. People here are less concerned with social justice, progressivism, or civil rights and want a “huge” paycheck. Industry leadership here is more than happy to comply with a status quo established by liability insurers that bans marijuana use in the workplace. If you are injured on the job and test positive for marijuana your employer’s insurance is not required to pay for the accident (in most cases). This effects every business in Texas, and stakeholders from all other industries wont be swayed to support increasing their premiums. Especially not to help an industry that isn’t going to be as profitable as medicine, aerospace, or energy. Industry leaders here always warn about decreases in their employees’ pay and jobs if faced with the kind of change legal marijuana will have on their bottom lines. Albeit they are not so direct with the facts.Although the Latino population will outnumber the white Christian population here soon, many Texas Latinos are conservative Republican voters and a significant portion of Latinos are disenfranchised by the drug wars policing tactics that disproportionately affects minorities. Most white Christians favor these policing policies as it helps to exclude Latinos from jobs, housing, and voting. So Latinos who vote Republican reinforce a Republican simple majority while a sizeable amount of Latinos are incarcerated or have felony convictions preventing them from voting.Perhaps there is something I’ve missed and I’ll concede where I am wrong. But the ‘puritan’ white culture of Texas (so much sarcasm i wish i could convey by using the word puritan), its grip on political power, and its cowardice to industrial leadership and their ransom on jobs and paychecks, are all factors contributing to why Texas will never see legalized recreational marijuana. Unless one of the four things I stated above happens, then most Texans who feel strongly about cannabis reform should understand Texas is a lost cause. And if you really want to live in a state with recreational marijuana, you’ll only be satisfied by becoming a resident of another state.

Simple answer, no.The Annexation Treaty of 1845 does give Texas the right to divide itself into as many as five states if it wants, but the right to secede and reform itself as an independent country again was resolved in 1868. In Texas vs White, the US Supreme Court ruled that “When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States."

They can do what the are doing now - sell oil, natural gas, and refined products to the world.Texas supplies Mexico with refined products (gasoline) and natural gas. They ship natural gas to Asia. Light sweet crude oil from the Permian Basin is shipped to simple refineries all over the world. Complex Refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast process heavy and sour oil from Mexico and other places.The electric semi trucks will be recharged with wind power from Texas, Oklahoma, and Great Planes states.Texas is the number one state for wind power, partially as a result of the efforts of Rick Perry, who was elected governor of Texas four times.Texas is not only surviving, but growing with new jobs in many industries.God Bless Texas.