AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety is opening an application process to potentially add more medical cannabis dispensaries, the agency announced...
The Department of Public Safety said they would not make a final decision on licensing more dispensaries until after the Legislative Session.
. The law, however, was highly restrictive in the conditions it covered and how much THC, the element that gives marijuana users a high, was allowed. The Legislature expanded the list of conditions that could be treated under the Compassionate Use Program a few years later. But even then, some advocates believe the program is too selective of the conditions that are allowed and are hoping the Legislature will pass expansion legislation this year.
But Nico Richardson, the acting CEO Compassionate Cultivation, of one of the three companies licensed in Texas believes that the move by DPS is premature. Since the program started in 2015, interest has grown. At first, physicians could only prescribe to patients who suffered from uncontrollable epileptic seizures.
But Richardson said he believes that only about 8,000 of those patients are “active patients,” or patients who haven’t signed up once or twice.“While the system has grown pretty dramatically since 2017, the patient base is incredibly small in Texas,” Richardson said. “We think it’s closer to 100,000 total patients before we need to initiate another process for bringing on new licenses.”
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