It would be legal in Texas to use a certain extract of the marijuana plant to treat some epileptics if two identical bills pass the Texas Legislature this year.
House Bill 892 and Senate Bill 339—dubbed the Texas Compassionate-Use Act—would set up a bureaucratic process to license nonprofit dispensers of “low-THC cannabis,” register their workers, and track the doctors who prescribe the drug and the patients who take it. The bills would task the Texas Department of Public Safety with implementing and enforcing the new law.
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