Gov. Greg Abbott declined to endorse Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s THC ban on Thursday, saying he needs more information about how lawmakers propose a prohibition that would criminalize a fast-growing cannabis market in Texas.

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.

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

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,