Texas is prepping to license people to grow, sell marijuana. Here are 10 things you need to know
Source: Houston Chronicle
Texas is prepping to license people to grow, sell marijuana. Here are 10 things you need to know
By Joshua Fechter
Updated 11:14 am, Monday, January 18, 2016
Legal marijuana is coming to Texas. With a catch.
The state will soon license dispensaries to sell low-THC cannabis products such as CBD oil for people diagnosed with intractable epilepsy, who suffer from seizures not controlled by traditional drugs.
Administrative rules approved by the state's Public Safety Commission in December intended to regulate the Compassionate Use Program took effect on Jan. 10, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Gov. Greg Abbott signed the bill into law in June.
But, the state is still about a year from full implementation of the law: the Department of Public Safety is currently looking for Texas Department of Information Resources vendors to develop the the framework for Compassionate Use Program's registry of physicians and dispensaries to prescribe and distribute low-THC cannabis products.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/local/article/10-facts-about-Texas-new-law-licensing-low-THC-6762270.php
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it would only be for medical conditions.
But come on, "Only patients diagnosed with intractable epilepsy may be prescribed low-THC cannabis products...".
Why not people undergoing chemo? 