88th Texas Legislature Cannabis Bills

The 88th Texas Legislature will convene to begin on Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at noon. Prefiling of legislation began on November 14, 2022. The 140th and final day of the 88th regular legislative session, known as “Sine die” is May 29, 2023. We hope to keep this page updated with bills as they are filed in the regular session. If a special session does take place with cannabis bills, a separate article will be published to address the situation. Read the article to learn more today. Forward to any people you know that want to get more information on this issue in Texas.
Lonestar Collective Episode 61: Screwston Scarecrow

This weeks guest of the Lonestar Collective podcast is Screwston Scarecrow. Using a community handle, the guest joins us in audio only to maintain some anonymity. They talk about how they’ve gone about learning to grow cannabis, and the issues they’ve faced doing such to include a police raid on their residence.
Five Texas cities decriminalized cannabis flower in elections

Yesterday, Texas voters in San Marcos, Denton, Killeen, Elgin and Harker Heights showed strong support for ballot propositions to decriminalize misdemeanor marijuana possession. The results were overwhelming in favor. Read more to see the results from the election
CannaNews 11/5/2022 – Court dismisses Florida medical cannabis gun lawsuit, Senate bill filed to prep for legalization

This week in our short news segment A 2019 appointed federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from Florida’s agriculture commissioner that challenged a ban on medical marijuana patients’ rights to buy and possess firearms. A new Senate Bill Would Create Federal Marijuana Commission To Prepare For Legalization. check out the article to hear the whole story in under 5 minutes.
Episode 60: Flower Moon Botanicals

This episode the guests are Flower Moon Botanicals Founders Shelley Peebles and Maggie Green. The two discuss their journey of moving from being on pharmaceuticals to using cannabis to treat their medical conditions, going through that while going through the stress of a divorce to become single moms, setting up their own business, banking struggles and much more.
Realistic perspective on kids & THC today

On 11/01/2022, WFAA News broke a story that shocked us all. Four small children were taken to the hospital and found to have ingested THC. It was then discovered that a worker at the daycare.. read more at Txcannaco.com
CannaNews 10/29/2022 – Bernie tells Texas: legalize, DPS to open up TCUP licenses, Power Biopharms donates gummies to breast cancer

Texas DPS announces hiring a consultant to open up licenses and be ready for future TCUP expansion by the legislature. Power Biopharms donated gummies to breast cancer sufferers and survivors, and Bernie Sanders told Texans at rallies that it’s time to legalize. Read all about it or listen via our podcast today to get the latest information.
Episode 59: Piper Lindeen with Americans for Safe Access

Guest Piper Lindeen joins us again with Jesse and Gramps at the helm for the episode. Piper joins this time to talk about her work with Americans for Safe Access. Piper is a graduate from the University of Maryland masters of science program for Medical Cannabis Science and Therapeutics.
TXCANNACO made it easy for you to vote for us in the Texas Hemp Awards

We all know that when awards voting takes place in a community, we want our favorite brand to get our vote. We also don’t want to spend a lot of time looking for our choice though. You’ve got plenty of great options to pick from in the current lineup this year. Visit bit.ly/THATCC2022 and you’ll see that all of the categories that include us have been selected. You can opt to fill in the other categories if you desire or just finish the form and click submit. If you just want to vote for us, all you need to do is complete the end of the form and click submit.
CannaNews Update 10/22/2022 – Louisiana explores workplace protections for medical users, Border Patrol loses case in federal court

This week in our short news segment the state of LA had 3 subcommittee task forces convene to discuss workplace protections with medical cannabis users in the state. The CBP lost another federal lawsuit on it’s attempts to ban the imports of paraphernalia to legal states.