Prop A Is Pro-Public Safety
We are informing citizens about the facts of Freedom Act Lubbock, also called Prop A, which will help direct limited city resources to serious crime issues in Lubbock and improve public safety.
This ordinance will help our law enforcement officers protect Lubbock from serious crimes.
Lubbock has serious crime issues. We should focus on those.
Lubbock has a number of challenges when it comes to crime. We need as much of our law enforcement officers’ time and energy as possible focused on dealing with fentanyl distribution, gang activity, sex trafficking, gun violence, property crimes, and more.
These types of activities cause very real harm to our communities and the city as a whole. Focusing on low-level marijuana possession is not a wise use of our law enforcement resources.
Our police force has already had city policy changed recently so that they don’t have to respond to minor traffic accidents where there are no injuries for the same reason.
Also, our District Attorney’s office has recently advocated for and received funding to hire more prosecutors due to an overwhelming backlog of cases. These resources should be used to prosecute more serious crimes more efficiently.
Freedom Act Lubbock (Prop A) at a Glance
prison and jail is a place for dangerous criminals who may harm others, and small possession of marijuana is not the type of violation that we want to stockpile jails with.
- Governor Greg Abbott
What Does Prop A Do?
It ends wasteful use of tax dollars
from putting people in jail for misdemeanor possession, but it does not legalize sales. Sales of illegal-concentration marijuana will still be unlawful. Prop A just frees up resources to pursue violent crimes instead of wasting taxpayer money on small amounts of misdemeanor possession.
It ends expensive THC concentration testing
which is the only way to prove that something is illegal marijuana and not legal hemp (which was legalized in 2019 in Texas).
It protects veterans
who use marijuana for pain and PTSD. Chronic pain is not currently covered under the Compassionate Use Program, and the low-THC options that are currently allowed aren't sufficiently effective for someone suffering with PTSD.
It helps improve public safety
by allowing our limited law enforcement officers and resources to focus on the serious crime issues Lubbock is facing such as fentanyl distribution, sex trafficking, gang activity, and property crime.