Texas House gives preliminary green light to medical marijuana expansion
Fort Worth Republican Rep. Stephanie Klick’s HB 1535 would raise the THC limit to 5% and include all forms of PTSD and several additional conditions for Texas’ medical cannabis program.
One of the four flowering rooms where cannabis plants are grown at Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, a state-licensed medical cannabis cultivator and dispensary, in Manchaca, Texas, in February 2018.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
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AUSTIN The Texas House gave preliminary approval to a bill Wednesday that would considerably expand the Texas Compassionate Use Program for the medical use of low-THC cannabis by including several additional groups of Texans while raising the THC limit from .5% to 5%.
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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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Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TOCC) says the bill offers an effective alternative to opioid use and its horrible, addictive qualities while expanding access to veterans suffering from PTSD and all cancer patients.
The bill amends the Texas Compassionate Use Act and aims to:
Expand the list of medical conditions and patients that qualify for low-THC medical cannabis to include all stages of cancer, acute or chronic pain for which physicians would otherwise prescribe opioids, and veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.