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Some Texas cities are taking direct action to dial back the drug wars and reduce their jail population. As lawmakers have wrestled in recent years with easing restrictions on marijuana use — an issue they likely will confront again when they convene in January — prosecutors in the state's...

Austin - Prosecutors in the most populated areas of Texas have in recent years dismissed a significantly larger number of marijuana offenses involving smaller amounts of the drug, according to a newspaper analysis. In the five most populous counties - Bexar, Dallas, Harris, Tarrant and Travis...

The Department of Public Safety is meeting Thursday to go over the latest set of rules connected with Texas' limited medical marijuana law. The timeline for implementing the law is on schedule, but that schedule is two years after the law took effect and that has dozens of Texas families...

The Department of Public Safety is meeting Thursday to go over the latest set of rules connected with Texas' limited medical marijuana law. The timeline for implementing the law is on schedule, but that schedule is two years after the law took effect and that has dozens of Texas families...

Houston - The Texas Compassionate Use Program is about a year away from licensing dispensing organizations for medical cannabis. Thursday, state lawmakers, physicians and scientists met with Vyripharm Biopharmaceuticals at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute. Elias Jackson of...

Houston - The Texas Compassionate Use Program is about a year away from licensing dispensing organizations for medical cannabis. Thursday, state lawmakers, physicians and scientists met with Vyripharm Biopharmaceuticals at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute. Elias Jackson of...

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's decision last week to list cannabis alongside the world's deadliest drugs, like heroin, means that states will continue to decide on their own whether pot possession should be harshly punished and what, if any, patients are allowed access to a plant...

The Drug Enforcement Agency on Thursday announced it was still way behind the times after refusing to reschedule marijuana out of its strictest drug control category, despite the growing consensus among experts that it doesn't belong there. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Washington Gov. Jay...

The Drug Enforcement Agency on Thursday announced it was still way behind the times after refusing to reschedule marijuana out of its strictest drug control category, despite the growing consensus among experts that it doesn't belong there. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Washington Gov. Jay...

Pro-marijuana advocates in Texas are gearing up for another showdown in Austin next year. Jason Miller, spokesman for Houston NORML, says they're hoping to build on 2015's successful session. "We're going to seek to expand the Texas Compassionate Use Act to include more qualifying conditions...

Gunter - A cotton gin that sat empty for decades in this small North Texas town could be filled next year with the first cannabis plants legally grown in the state. The man investing in the old buildings plans to open a greenhouse and processing facility to make cannabis oil as a medical...

Medical marijuana is coming to Texas next year, and next week the Medcan Foundation will conduct a two-day seminar in El Paso to talk about getting into the business. "Our course is designed for everybody — dispensaries, cultivators, processors, patients and doctors," said Medcan's director...

Medical marijuana is coming to Texas next year, and next week the Medcan Foundation will conduct a two-day seminar in El Paso to talk about getting into the business. "Our course is designed for everybody — dispensaries, cultivators, processors, patients and doctors," said Medcan's director...

Texans who are arrested for possessing small amounts of marijuana shouldn't be locked out of jobs and haunted by minor lapses in judgment for the rest of their lives, business and legislative leaders say. As acceptance of marijuana - medical and otherwise - grows nationally and in Texas...

Austin, Texas - Some Texas legislators would like to see more allowable uses for medical marijuana by expanding a law approved in 2015. The law lets patients with a rare form of epilepsy be legally treated with cannabidiol, or CBD, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The Texas Department...

Austin, Texas - Some Texas legislators would like to see more allowable uses for medical marijuana by expanding a law approved in 2015. The law lets patients with a rare form of epilepsy be legally treated with cannabidiol, or CBD, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The Texas...

Gunter, Texas - About 60 miles north of Dallas, amid green fields in the sleepy town of Gunter - population 1,486 - Texas Cannabis CEO Patrick Moran has optioned to buy a former cotton gin, where he plans to grow the Cannabis sativa plant, known more commonly as marijuana. The businessman and...

Whitewright, Texas - About 50 miles northwest of Dallas, in the small town of Whitewright, a newly-elected, pot-friendly mayor is already shaking things up. Jeremiah Looney - yep, he's now known as Mayor Looney - says things weren't quite right in Whitewright. "The city and the citizens were...

State Senator Donna Campbell is perhaps the best emblem of the uphill battle that the legalization of marijuana, medical or otherwise, faces in Texas. She's also a physician, and so her opinion about whether medical weed, at least, will do patients any good might hold a little extra weight with...

Medical marijuana advocates in Texas are quietly planning their next moves. "We're getting serious, folks," Amy Lou Fawell told a few dozen activists, most of them political novices, gathered for a Monday strategy session at the Texas Capitol. What the patients, veterans and volunteers may lack...