"We've got to get the genie back in the bottle," said Sen. Charles Perry, who authored the legislative bill SB3.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick may not be seeing eye-to-eye on Patrick's priority push to prohibit all THC products in the Lone Star State. Abbott signaled at a press conference on Thursday that he needed more information on the move to take back control of what Patrick and other Texas lawmakers see as a widely unregulated market.

A crowd of hundreds came to hear arguments over a proposed THC ban Tuesday, forcing a committee meeting to relocate testimony to the main Texas Senate chamber. More than 170 people signed up to speak,