Texas House committee passes bill to expand medical marijuana program
Fort Worth Republican Rep. Stephanie Klick’s proposal would broaden who qualifies for the compassionate use program and raise the THC limit for cannabis.
Morris Denton looked over marijuana plants in a flowering room at Compassionate Cultivation, a licensed medical cannabis cultivator and dispensary, in 2017 in Manchaca, Texas.(Eric Gay / AP)
AUSTIN The Texas House Committee on Public Health passed a bill Wednesday that would include more patients in the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) for medical marijuana.
House Bill 1535, authored by Fort Worth Republican Rep. Stephanie Klick, would grow the Texas Compassionate Use Program by including patients with any type of cancer, not just terminal, PTSD in veterans and chronic pain that would otherwise be treated with an opioid.
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