Texas officials have taken another step toward implementing a law to significantly expand the state’s medical marijuana program—proposing rules to to let physicians recommend new qualifying conditions for cannabis and to create standards for allowable inhalation devices in line with legislation enacted by lawmakers and the governor earlier this year.
About a month after the state Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) circulated the draft rules at a meeting, they have now been formally published in the Texas Register—kicking off a 31-day public comment period before they’re potentially finalized.
Last month, the Department of Public Safety (DPS) separately posted a set of additional rules in the Register to increase the number of licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Texas under the recently enacted legislation.
The latest rule HHSC put forward “prescribes the way a physician may request additional medical conditions be added to the list of qualifying conditions,” the text says.
Specifically, doctors would be able to submit recommended medical cannabis qualifying conditions to the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), which would then forward the recommendation to DPS. That department would be tasked with submitting the request to lawmakers for consideration in the next legislative session.
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