Sunday Rally Planned To Support Texas' Budding Efforts To Decriminalize Marijuana

The legislative push to reduce or eliminate criminal penalties associated with the possession and use of marijuana is an imperative concern for many Texans statewide.

While information on all current bills and action items regarding marijuana are readily accessible, citizens of Texas lack the ability to vote directly on drug policies at a local level. Instead, elected officials congregate at the Capital once every two years to write and vote on bills in the House and Senate.

This year’s legislative session in Austin, Texas has proved to be an uncommonly productive one. Indeed, several bills encompassing a plethora of issues related to marijuana have garnered a significant amount of attention from supporters and opponents of the policies alike, as well as feedback from the bills' constituents.

HB-507, one of the most discussed proposals in the lot, involves a massive reduction of the “civil [penalties] for possession of certain...

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