If the Denton City Council won’t approve an ordinance decriminalizing possession of misdemeanor amounts of weed, activists say they’ll work to get the issue put on the ballot for voters to decide.
Peggy had just left the hospital when she went to visit her cannabis dealer in Denton. A retail cashier in her mid-60s, she was struggling to pay her bills and buy the drugs prescribed to treat an inoperable brain tumor. She needed the cannabis to give her an appetite when…
To qualify, nonresidents would need to get approved by an Oklahoma doctor and pay a $200 fee for a license that would then have to be approved by the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority.
Legalizing marijuana could make Texas beaucoup bucks.
In 2016, Tony Timpa had a run-in with the police. As he stood outside a porn shop on Mockingbird Lane, Timpa called the cops, telling them he was scared, off of his medication and suffering from mental illness. By the end of the night, the 32-year-old Timpa was dead, dying…
The state of marijuana regulation in Texas, as it stands at the beginning of 2020, is a puzzle. For those of the right race and socioeconomic status, weed is effectively legal. In the state’s big cities especially, pot isn’t seen as a scourge — police departments are citing and releasing…
Without the fanfare of a signing ceremony or public statement, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott legalized industrial hemp and products derived from the plant this week, bringing Dallas’ many CBD shops out of murky legal waters and into the light. House Bill 1325, which passed overwhelmingly in both the Texas House…
Texas’ bare-minimum medical THC program, 2015’s Compassionate Use Act, appears set to get a little more robust this spring after the Texas Senate followed the Texas House in approving a new list of conditions eligible for the program. When Gov. Greg Abbott signed the Compassionate Use Act four years ago,…
The Texas Legislature’s latest attempt to reform the state’s marijuana laws appears to have gone out not with a bang or a whimper but with a tweet. Monday night, the Texas House of Representatives passed a landmark bill that, if it becomes law, would reduce Texas’ penalty for possessing an…
Looks like marijuana decriminalization has an honest shot in the Texas House this session. Whether that will carry over to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s domain in the Senate is yet to be seen. Monday afternoon, the House’s Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill making Texans caught with small amounts of…
The 2017 Texas Legislature was this close to actually doing something about the state’s draconian marijuana laws. A bill that would’ve decriminalized possessing an ounce of pot or less was scheduled for a vote in the Texas House before being scuttled by a procedural maneuver. A comprehensive medical marijuana bill made…
Wednesday’s forced resignation of anti-cannabis hard-liner U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was welcome news to marijuana reform supporters, but the departure of another Washington veteran named Sessions could have a larger effect on federal marijuana laws in the months ahead. U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions is the GOP chairman of the…
Willie Nelson is going to headline a free concert for U.S. Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke at Auditorium Shores in Austin on Sept. 29. It’s an interesting headline — one that shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone, given Nelson’s history of support for marijuana legalization and his work for Farm…
Texas, seemingly, is headed for marijuana reform sooner than expected. The state’s Republican Party passed a platform Saturday afternoon supporting major changes in the way the state treats medical marijuana and those found in possession of less than an ounce of pot, signaling that years of harsh prohibition could be…
The Texas Department of State Health Services has tapped the brakes on a proposed protocol that could’ve seen all food and supplements containing cannabidiol oil removed from Texas store shelves, thanks to a deluge of comments sent to the agency last month in support of the products. “The protocol that was…
Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, misrepresented the drug’s risks, potential for addiction and appropriate dosage schedules, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton wants the company to compensate the state for its alleged role in the opioid addiction crisis that led to…
It was all going so well, or so 10 Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport employees thought, before one of them allegedly agreed to smuggle C-4 explosives on a plane departing from the airport. They were moving what they believed to be meth through the airport, charging undercover agents they believed to…
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions’ 32nd Congressional District seat is one the Democratic Party hopes to flip in November, and it’s not alone. A pro-marijuana political action committee also wants Sessions out of his seat. Sessions possesses a considerable amount of power in the House as an 11-term representative and the chairman of…
Sorry about that headline. It’s 4/20, the unofficial national marijuana holiday when America celebrates the happy wonders of weed. It should be cheerier, right? Weed is potent and plentiful. Yay! But this is Texas, where it’s still illegal. Boo! And it will probably remain illegal until the cows come home,…
If you’re white in Dallas, you’re probably good to go ahead a smoke up Friday, but you might want to watch out if you’re a part of the nearly 50 percent of city’s population that is made up of people of color. That’s the takeaway from the Dallas Police Department’s…
What are the most vital questions concerning the marijuana industry today? No, not “Got any?” or “Hey, can you hook me up with your guy?” The truth is the marijuana industry is booming, medical use of marijuana is expanding and entrepreneurs are entrepreneuring, and there’s a whole world of valuable weed…
State health inspectors could confiscate food products that say they contain CBD oil under new procedures proposed by the Texas Department of State Health Services, raising howls from medical marijuana supporters and threatening to stifle a growing number of shops peddling products with the oil. They’ve popped up all over…
