The Hitch That May Keep Texas Patients from Legally Accessing Cannabis Oil
A seemingly minor glitch in Texas’s Compassionate Use Program could allow cannabis oil producers to start production, but will patients be able to buy it?
Category: Texas
University of Texas Poll Shows 83% Approval for Medical Marijuana
Opposition to the legalization of marijuana in Texas has fallen to its lowest level ever, according to a new poll released by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune.
Texas Law Enforcement Officials to Speak Out in Favor of Bill to Reduce Marijuana Penalties
Members of the law enforcement community will speak out Thursday in favor of a bill that would reduce the penalty for simple marijuana possession in Texas.
Veterans and Marijuana Policy Reform Advocates to Gather at Texas State Capitol Saturday
AUSTIN — Military veterans and local marijuana policy reform advocates will gather at the State Capitol in Austin on Saturday for the 2016 Texas Veterans Medical Marijuana Conference. The event, hosted by Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy and Texas NORML, will feature educators, advocates, medical professionals, and veteran …
Why is the state of Texas raiding pharmacies that sell CBD?
This week the Texas Department of Public Safety let it be known they are in no mood for CBD oil retailers who sell products that exceed the widely-accepted .3% THC level by raiding four Austin-area pharmacies. Peoples Pharmacy, a holistic pharmacy located in Austin was the focus of DPS …
Texas Town Elects Pro-Marijuana Mayor, Several Employees Resign in Protest
The citizens of the city of Whitewright, TX — population 1,604 — knew exactly what they were getting when they elected Jeremiah Looney as their Mayor earlier this month. A combat Army veteran who served two tours in Iraq and who now advocates for the rights of veterans to …
Texas Marijuana Reform Activists, Including Active-Duty Dallas Police Officer, to Gather Saturday
Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy is mobilizing activists throughout Texas in an effort to inject marijuana policy debate into 2016 state legislative races DALLAS — Local marijuana policy reform advocates, including an active-duty Dallas police officer, will gather Saturday for an advocacy training event at the Tyler Area …
Texas Sheriff Refuses to Arrest Marijuana Offenders at Federal Checkpoint
NPR- A federal inspection station on Interstate 10 in the West Texas desert earned the nickname “checkpoint of the stars” for all the entertainers who kept getting busted there. In the past six years, Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg, Nelly and Fiona Apple were all arrested for possession of …
Lawsuit Filed over SWAT Raid on Texas Tomato Farm in Search of Marijuana
Back in August of 2013 a fully-outfitted assault force stormed the property belonging to members of the Garden of Eden, an intentional community located in Arlington, TX whose purpose is to live together in sustainable housing, grow organic food and pretty much just live life how they want …
Texas Woman Receives Roadside Vaginal Probe in Search of Marijuana
A Harris County, Texas woman is the latest in a long line of female victims of the state’s completely insane prosecution of the war on drugs after deputies forcibly penetrated her during a routine traffic stop earlier this summer. 21 year-old Charnesia Corley said she was driving in northern Harris County around …
Texas State Lawmakers Introduce Comprehensive Medical Marijuana Legislation
Measures introduced in the House and Senate on Friday would allow patients with debilitating conditions — including veterans with PTSD — to access medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it AUSTIN – Texas state lawmakers introduced legislation Friday that would allow patients with cancer, seizure disorders, post-traumatic stress …