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  Did Legal Marijuana Just Come to Texas?

  December 24, 2015 at 11:48 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana, Recreational Marijuana

  Oh happy day. Texas now has a legal marijuana market, in which marijuana can be grown and sold without the feds swooping in all stealth-like. But unfortunately — at least for most of you Texas’ potheads — that Lone Star legal weed will only be permitted on Native American reservations. (It’s okay — still we’re secretly hopeful, too.) In one of the coolest marijuana moves by the feds to date, the U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that Native [...]

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  Texas: Fight to Legalize Marijuana Led by 9 Year-old Girl

  January 22, 2015 at 12:49 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  AUSTIN — Alexis Bortell will tell you she’s a pretty normal kid. The 9-year old from Rowlett enjoys cartoons, playing with her younger sister and playing golf. Yet in addition to the usual concerns of a kid her age, she’s also fighting a life and death battle against epilepsy. Alexis’ father Dean Bortell, a U.S. Navy veteran, says Alexis’ first seizure happened at their Rowlett, Texas home in July 2013. “We were folding clothes and all of a sudden I [...]

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  Conservative Group Begins Pushing for Medical Marijuana in Texas

  May 12, 2014 at 6:37 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  A conservative group says it will begin pushing hard for the legalization of marijuana for medical use in Texas, 1200 WOAI’s Berit Mason reports. Mothers Advocating Medical Marijuana for Autism, or MAMMA, says the group will be urging lawmakers in the sessions that begins in January to push for revisions in state law to allow marijuana to be used as a treatment, especially for sick children who suffer from the seizures associated with autism. “Some of the parents are giving [...]

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  Texas Lawmakers Consider Medical Marijuana Legislation

  May 3, 2013 at 12:47 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Earlier this week Texas lawmakers held a public hearing on House Bill 594, a medical marijuana measure which would protect qualified patients in the state by adding an “affirmative defense”. This law, which is similar to affirmative defense laws in places like Washington State, gives individuals who receive an authorization from a physician a legal defense from prosecution. ` Although in this instance patients can still be technically prosecuted, it has to be done by a jury which explicitly ignores the [...]

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