Texas Cannabis Market

On June 1, 2015, Gov. Greg Abbot signed SB 339 – a limited medical cannabis bill, known as the Texas Compassionate Use Act – into law to allow patients with intractable epilepsy to access low-THC (not more than 0.5%), high-CBD (10% or more CBD) medical cannabis. Cannabis Delivery Business

The Texas Department of Public Safety set to work creating a registry of doctors who could prescribe medical cannabis, and three organizations – Compassionate Cultivation, Surterra Texas and Knox Medical – have been licensed to grow, process and sell medical cannabis to patients.

Roughly 45 doctors have signed up to prescribe the medical cannabis to about 600 of the estimated 150,000 epilepsy patients.

In June 2019, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law House Bill 3703, a measure that adds multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, terminal cancer, autism and many kinds of seizure disorders to the state’s list of qualifying medical cannabis conditions. Cannabis Testing Business

In June 2021, a new law (House Bill 1535) was signed into law to permit the use of low-THC cannabis (1%) for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder as well as any form of cancer, instead of only terminal cancer.