Just a day into the period during which Texas lawmakers can begin prefiling bills ahead of the forthcoming 2025 legislative session, elected officials have already proposed a number of cannabis-related reforms, including measures to legalize cannabis for adults, expand the state’s restrictive low-THC medical program and impose new restrictions on hemp.
Further marijuana-related bills are likely coming ahead of the legislative session, which doesn’t begin until mid-January. Lawmakers in Texas meet only every two years.
Heather Fazio, of the group Texans for Responsible Marijuana Policy, said it’s “likely to be a very consequential legislative session.”
“Our state’s cannabis laws are complicated and ineffective,” she told Marijuana Moment. “Thankfully lawmakers are taking the issue seriously and filing bills as soon as possible to get the process started.”
(Disclosure: Fazio supports Marijuana Moment’s work through a monthly Patreon pledge.)
The Texas House of Representatives passed a series of bills last session to decriminalize marijuana, facilitate expungements and allow chronic pain patients to access medical cannabis as an opioid alternative. But those proposals ultimately stalled out in the Senate, which has been a theme for cannabis reform measures in the conservative legislature in recent sessions.
The House passed similar cannabis decriminalization proposals during the
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