3 Marijuana Reform Bills Pass Out of Texas House Committees

[JoethePleb]

Cannabis is big business, but whose business it is depends on where you live. Four states, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia have turned it into a valuable cash crop and tourism industry, while many more have allowed for its compassionate use for medical purposes.

In Texas, which talks a big freedom and liberty game, the profits still flow to the hands of cartels and black market entrepreneurs while sick patients beg politicians to allow their doctors to grant relief.

Those working for change in the Lone Star State got a glimmer of hope as....

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/30053/progress-in-texas-the-state-of-weed

[awoke_in_2003]

1. A glimmer...

but I have no faith in the idiots in Austin. My wife suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and neuropathy, and lives with a lot of pain. Hydrocodone helps, but she doesn't like taking it. The feds need to get off their butts and reschedule marijuana- that MIGHT make the states loosen up a bit.