Screen Capture: X / Office of the Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
A sleepy looking Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick warns Texans about the dangers of the hemp industry while THC products are laid out on top of his desk.
The pissed-off CEO of an Austin recreational hemp company is offering 20% off all his business’ products after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick accused the state’s hemp suppliers of being terrorists during an unhinged Monday press conference.
Hometown Hero CEO Lukas Gilkey announced the special after Patrick, an anti-weed crusader, blew up over Gov. Greg Abbott’s veto of Senate Bill 3, which sought a complete ban on the sale of possession of products containing THC, the compound in cannabis that gets people high.
For the next 11 hours, Hometown Hero is offering visitors to its online store the steep discount if they use the coupon code “BAN DAN” at checkout.
The cheeky code comes after Patrick claimed during his rambling news conference that Abbott’s veto implies the governor wanted to legalize recreational marijuana, that passing SB 3 was a matter of “life and death” and that THC products will destroy the state’s economy because everyone will be too high to work.
“Thank you, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Your press conference was full of lies,” Gilkey said in a video posted on social media platform X promoting the sale and code.
In honor of the Lt. Gov’s awful press conference today, we’ve got a deal for ya’ll! pic.twitter.com/7Pfp4q4nuS
— Hometown Hero ATX (@HometownHeroATX) June 23, 2025
In a follow-up clip, Giley noted that Texas’ THC businesses are already regulated under House Bill 1325, which passed in 2019. The CEO also added that Patrick’s claim that recreational THC would make Texas’ limited medical cannabis program obsolete is nonsensical.
“If they’re selling the same products as us, that’s the only reason it would make the program worthless,” Gilkey said. “This makes no sense whatsoever, and when you think about it, it completely disproves everything that he’s saying.”
The Lt. Gov Dan Patrick just held a press conference on SB3 being vetoed where he slandered, not just our industry, but the business owners in our community.
He claimed that we were terrorists, or money laundering for terrorists, and he also continued to make unsupported claims… pic.twitter.com/ULLTIWaXls
— Hometown Hero ATX (@HometownHeroATX) June 23, 2025
Patrick and Abbott will try to hash out their differences over the THC ban during a special legislative session set to begin July 31.However, common ground might be difficult to find. Patrick’s also said he’ll accept nothing less than a full ban on THC products, while Abbott is calling for the products to remain legal but face more regulatory oversight.
“We will work through it, hopefully,” Patrick said during Monday’s presser. “But it’s not the state I want. I don’t want my kids, my grandkids, growing up in a state where everybody is high.”
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