A House subcommittee has scheduled a public hearing on legislation that would expand Texas’ medical cannabis program.
The House Disease Prevention & Women’s & Children’s Health Subcommittee has scheduled a public hearing on House Bill 46, set to take place on April 14 at 8am at the state capitol, room E2.030. The hearing was originally scheduled for April 3, but was cancelled before being rescheduled today.
The proposal would allow licensed dispensaries to open satellite storage locations, it would raise the statewide cap on dispensing organization licenses from three to six, and it would require approved entities to begin dispensing low-THC cannabis within 24 months.
The legislation would also establish a 300-milligram limit on individual packages of low-THC cannabis products, replacing the current 1% THC concentration cap by weight. It would also block local governments from banning the cultivation, production, storage, or dispensing of low-THC cannabis.
Texas launched its Compassionate-Use Program in 2015, initially restricting access to patients with intractable epilepsy. Since then, the program has expanded to include conditions like multiple sclerosis, autism, terminal cancer, and PTSD, but the state still enforces some of the most restrictive medical marijuana laws in the nation.
