Doctors in Texas can now complete and submit an official state form to recommend adding new medical conditions that they think should qualify a patient for medical marijuana. And dispensaries can also use the form to put forward proposals to authorize specific inhalation devices for patients.
After officials adopted rules in compliance with a recently enacted state law expanding Texas’s medical cannabis program, the Department of State Health Services released the new form on Tuesday.
For doctors seeking to add qualifying conditions for medical marijuana, they are required to submit peer-reviewed research justifying the expansion. Dispensaries, meanwhile, must affirm that the device they’re recommending is “safe and effective for the pulmonary inhalation of low-THC cannabis.”
The form is being distributed just as the state Department of Public Safety (DPS) has conditionally approved nine new medical marijuana business licenses as part of a new cannabis law.
Under the law passed by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in June, DPS is required to issue a total of 12 new licenses under the legislation. The department will issue conditional licenses to three additional dispensaries by April 2026.
This represents a major change to the program, as there are
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