This is not at all new (that silly statement about how "we are now..."). The GOP has always tried to force us to live according to their limits.
Team TalaricoJames Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."