The Texas Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal of a case concerning the state’s overturning of a local marijuana decriminalization law that was approved by voters in the city of San Marcus.
About five months after the state Fifteenth Court of Appeals rejected a lower court ruling that denied a temporary injunction to prevent the law from being enforced, the state Supreme Court on Friday sidestepped the case.
“The Texas Supreme Court refused to hear this case, siding with Greg Abbott’s handpicked judges and telling 82 percent of San Marcos voters their voices do not matter,” Catina Voellinger, executive director of Ground Game Texas, which was behind this and multiple other local reform measures, said.
“This is not just about marijuana. It is about whether working Texans get to make our own decisions, like the Texas Constitution says we should,” Voellinger said.
The lower court’s ruling—and this subsequent Supreme Court inaction—marks a setback for activists who’ve led the charge to enact local marijuana policy changes through the ballot, many of which have been contested by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).
“Texas has the biggest working-class population in the country, with most of us making $15 an hour
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