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Home 🌿 Medical Cannabis News 🌿 Medical marijuana, like pot decriminalization, nearly dead in Texas Legislature 🌿Medical marijuana, like pot decriminalization, nearly dead in Texas Legislature
AUSTIN -- The chair of the committee that controls the fate of medical marijuana legalization in Texas said Monday that "there are still a lot of questions to be answered" about the legislation, indicating it is unlikely to win approval before next week's deadline.
"The bills need a lot of time and attention," state Rep. Myra Crownover, R-Denton, said in an interview outside a forum here about health issues in the Legislature.
The House Public Health Commitee chair's comments came after a discussion in which she said she had heard "compelling" testimony about possible benefits of marijuana for medical conditions but wanted to study how legalization has played out in states such as Colorado and California.
She would not declare the bill dead in the interview, but repeated the state was at the beginning of a "long process" toward legalization.
The deadline for House bills to make it out of...
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