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• Texas Seizure Patient Raided for Three Marijuana Plants

  July 4, 2014 at 7:58 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  It took more than twelve years for 38 year-old Jeremy Bourque to sharpen his grow skills to the point where he could produce quality cannabis that effectively treated his seizures. Jeremy was diagnosed with Epilepsy at the age of 15 and has been hospitalized at least 10 times in his life, including a recent 9-day stint in intensive care in a coma. Since the age of 18, Jeremy has been using medical cannabis to do what no man-made medication has [...]

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  Could Legalization of Marijuana Be in Texas’s Future?

  May 23, 2014 at 7:01 am / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  As you drive up the long, gravel-lined drive of the small clapboard house in south Texas, not much seems unusual. An old hunting dog suns himself on the porch, and the modest decor of the peeling front porch — a weathered rocker and a swing — drips with small-town charm. You’d never guess that it’s quite modern inside, though. Just beyond the front door sit not only tidy living quarters, but a sophisticated cannabis grow house presided over by a [...]

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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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  Majority Of Texas Voters Want To Legalize Marijuana

  October 8, 2013 at 3:16 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  A majority of Texas voters support marijuana legalization, according to a recent survey. Public Policy Polling found that 58 percent of Texans “support making marijuana legal for adults and regulating it like alcohol.” Even more — 61 percent — were in favor of decriminalizing marijuana possession and instead punishing violations with a civil citation. Texas law currently views possession of marijuana, even on a minute scale, as a criminal offense, punishable by $2,000 in fines and up to a year of [...]

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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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