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A petition to add marijuana reforms to Dallas' city charter has been certified by the City Secretary. Now, Dallas voters have the final say.
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Local organization Decriminalize Denton seeks a new motion to vacate a previous ruling in favor of Attorney General Ken Paxton after a Travis County district judge dismissed the same case in Austin.
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Current and former Dallas City Council members will introduce a charter amendment that would essentially decriminalize low amounts of weed in the city.
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Lawmakers are struggling to balance demands for medicinal cannabis products with a wildly growing market that is outpacing meaningful regulation.
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It’s now been two years since New Mexico legalized recreational cannabis, and sales data shows Texans are helping what’s become a multi-million-dollar industry for the state. Despite that, Texas lawmakers seem even farther from approving any sort of marijuana reform than they were just a few years ago.
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One Lubbockite who has fought terminal cancer with relief through the Texas Compassionate Use Program says changes in the narrative around marijuana can educate and bring relief for many struggling Texans — when you take the politics out.
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Physicians are increasingly concerned as cases of accidental marijuana ingestion among children 3 and younger spike at Cook Children’s emergency department in Fort Worth.
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Ground Game Texas is working to collect 35,000 signatures to put a decriminalization amendment in front of Dallas voters this fall.
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Decriminalize Denton, a local nonprofit, filed a petition of intervention on Monday, making it a defendant in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Jan. 31 lawsuit against Denton. The organization seeks to have Paxton’s lawsuit dismissed on the grounds that it has no legal standings, according to a Feb. 5 press release.
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Five Texas cities have adopted policies that decriminalize low levels of marijuana possession, after voters overwhelmingly supported the changes. The Texas attorney general says that's against state law.
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The voter-approved ordinance already prohibits the city of Denton from spending budgetary funds on THC testing. But, according to the city charter, since a voter-led initiative put it on the ballot, it doesn't have budgetary power.
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The Denton Police Department released a list of the citations and arrests related to misdemeanor amounts of marijuana, covering the time period between Nov. 3 and May 2.