{"id":7219,"date":"2017-02-16T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/?p=52618"},"modified":"2017-02-16T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T14:18:38","slug":"advocates-push-for-a-2017-texas-medical-marijuana-bill-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/advocates-push-for-a-2017-texas-medical-marijuana-bill-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocates Push for a 2017 Texas Medical Marijuana Bill in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/advocates-push-for-a-2017-texas-medical-marijuana-bill-in-austin\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/no-jail-time-misdemeanor-cannabis-possession-harris-county-texas\/\">Advocates<\/a> push for a 2017 Texas medical marijuana bill\u00a0during a Constituent Advocacy Day that brought a few hundred cannabis supporters to the state capitol, in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The effort to galvanize support for cannabis in the southern state was organized by a coalition of groups including chapters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), and Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) under the umbrella of Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/txcann.com\/texas-first-major-push-marijuana-reform-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Texas Cannabis Report<\/a>\u00a0says the event was the first real push for marijuana reform in the new year.\u00a0There was a glimmer of hope back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/dallas-cop-to-help-mobilize-marijuana-activists-in-tyler-texas-on-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\">2015<\/a>, when two bills passed out of committee, but they were never heard by the full House of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/texas-gop-supports-medical-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Representatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates for marijuana in the Lone Star State say the best bet for a 2017 Texas medical marijuana bill is SB 269, filed by Senator Jos\u00e9 Men\u00e9ndez, a Democrat from San Antonio. The bill would establish a whole plant medical cannabis program for patients with debilitating medical conditions.\u00a0<span>Currently, Texas has a<\/span><span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/grow-for-vets-usa-announces-texas-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compassionate <\/a>Use Program for CBD oil only.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1479163523931-0\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Conditions listed in the bill include; cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn\u2019s disease, ulcerative colitis, agitation of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, sickle cell anemia, severe fibromyalgia, spinal cord disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury or post-concussion syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Parkinson\u2019s disease, muscular dystrophy, or Huntington\u2019s disease, or any other medical condition approved as a debilitating medical condition by department rule or any symptom caused by the treatment of a medical condition that is approved as a debilitating medical condition by department rule.<\/p>\n<p>Shaun McAlister is the Director of Dallas Fort Worth chapter of NORML. His call to action is for cannabis enthusiasts to show up to more of these political events. \u201cHopefully even more citizens from around the Lone Star State will consider joining us in Austin for these citizen lobby days because the only way marijuana laws change in a state like Texas is by all of us working together. Every single Texan has a role to play when it comes to ending cannabis prohibition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advocates push for a 2017 Texas medical marijuana bill\u00a0during a Constituent Advocacy Day that brought a few hundred cannabis supporters to the state capitol, in Austin. The effort to galvanize support for cannabis in the southern state was organized by a coalition of groups including chapters of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\/2017-texas-medical-marijuana-bill\/\">Advocates Push for a 2017 Texas Medical Marijuana Bill in Austin<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theweedblog.com\">The Weed Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6973,5115,6821,9,1,3,557,61,1736],"tags":[6974,5116,6823,3130],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}