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Texas becomes the 40th medical cannabis state!

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On June 21, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed HB 46 into law, making Texas the 40th medical cannabis state in the United States! Until now, Texas’ low-THC Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) has been so restrictive that MPP and others did not classify it as a medical cannabis state. 

Texas’ law has slowly evolved from an exceptionally restrictive low-THC medical cannabis program. Among other improvements, HB 46 will:

  • Expand qualifying conditions, including by adding chronic pain
  • Add modes of delivery, including non-smoked inhalation
  • Expand the number of licensees from three to 15, while allowing satellite locations
  • Replace the 1% THC limit with a 1 gram of THC per package limit

Texas’ medical cannabis program remains very restrictive, but this is huge progress in an extremely challenging legislature, and it will improve lives. You can find a full summary of HB 46 here
 
This upgrade in a deeply conservative state underscores that cannabis policy reforms are possible in all political landscapes. Texas joins “deep red” states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Dakota, and Utah in adopting comprehensive medical cannabis programs. 
 
The passage of HB 46 reinforces the fact that a vast majority of all Americans want access to legal, laboratory-tested cannabis products. With a population of over 31 million, potentially hundreds of thousands of Texans will have access to laboratory-tested medicine that can improve their quality of life. 
 
Patients, veterans, and advocates were unrelenting in their push to better meet the needs of medical cannabis patients.
 
Texans were also successful in influencing Gov. Greg Abbott to veto SB3, a bill that would have re-criminalized sales and possession of THC products (except CBG and CBD) outside of the TCUP. A special session has been called to begin on July 21, to decide regulations for hemp-derived THC products. 
 
The power of people organizing to further access to this life-saving medicine cannot be underestimated. The road forward to moving federal policy in line with what a supermajority of states have adopted is closer with the addition of Texas as a medical cannabis state.



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University of Mississippi Announces New Cannabis Research and Resource Center

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In an April 14, 2025 news release, the University of Mississippi (UM) announced it will lead the new Resource Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research (R3CR), intended to support cannabis research across the nation (1). The R3CR will operate in the National Center for Natural Products Research (NCNPR) and will contribute to the production of more scientific evidence and information through an interactive website, webinars, conferences, and more.

Founded in 1995 at UM, the NCNPR partners with several organizations to facilitate research, quality, safety, and innovation in natural product science and development, and one area this includes is plant physiology (2).

“This is a unique opportunity to assist others and encourage further research in all fields of cannabis research,” stated Ikhlas Khan, director of the NCNPR, in the news release. “Establishment of this center should promote more science, and our hope is that in the near future, this center will develop evidence-based products that will address quality, safety and efficacy.” Khan will lead the new center.

“People will realize significant changes in the landscape of cannabis research,” stated Donald Stanford, assistant director of the Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UM. “Changes such as stronger and improved regulation compliance, development of more cannabis technologies, as well as the FDA receiving relevant safety data to make decisions on cannabinoids in foods and dietary supplements, can all eventually contribute to people’s health.”

Stanford added that over the next five years more cannabis researchers are anticipated to be able to enter the field as a result of the center.

To provide direction on regulations and best practices, the R3CR will facilitate the partnership between Washington State University (WSU) and United States Pharmacopoeia (USP).

The R3CR will be comprised of three dedicated groups: regulatory guidance, research support, and research standards.

Research professor and UM Marijuana Project Director Mahmoud ElSohly will lead the regulatory guidance group, which will act as a repository for cannabis research regulations related from the DEA and FDA. “Because conducting cannabis studies involves a complexity of regulations of various federal and state agencies, both researchers and administrators must fully understand the requirements and must devise ways to comply in a practical manner,” ElSohly stated. “Our resource center will strive to provide guidance on matters such as this.” ElSoly will be joined by UM’s director of the National Center for Cannabis Research and Education, Robert Welch.

The research support group will be led by WSU pharmaceutical sciences professor Mary Paine and will focus on distributing scientific information, organizing conferences and events, plus distributing seed funding grants.

Focusing on best practices and technical information, the research standards group will be led by Nandakumara Sarma, USP director of dietary supplements and herbal medicines.

A grant partnership from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) will support the center. As stated on its website, the NCCIH conducts and supports research while also offering complementary health information and resources (3).

References

  1. University of Mississippi. Pioneering Cannabis Research: UM Leads New National Resource Center https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/4/new-cannabis-resource-center/index.html (accessed April 15, 2025).
  2. University of Mississippi. National Center for Natural Products Research https://olemiss.edu/ncnpr/ (accessed April 15, 2025).
  3. National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. What does NCCIH do? https://www.nccih.nih.gov/ (accessed April 15, 2025).



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Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Approve Referendum Allowing Tribe to Explore Cannabis Legalization

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The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians on Tuesday approved a referendum allowing the Tribe to develop “legislation to decriminalize and regulate possession, production, and distribution of marijuana on Tribal lands.” Referendum no. 2025-01 passed 1,367 to 1,110, according to a Facebook post.  

The Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized Tribe in Mississippi and controls about 35,000 acres across 10 counties in the eastern part of the state.  

According to the referendum, the approval will allow the Tribe to conduct a comprehensive study on enacting both medical and adult-use cannabis reforms, which would lead to cannabis cultivation and retail cannabis sales on tribal lands. The Tribe estimates the cost of hiring a consultant to conduct the study to run about $100,000.

The referendum was approved by a plurality of voters in seven of nine jurisdictions, with voters in Bogue Chitto, BC-Henning, Bogue Homa, Crystal Ridge, Pearl River, Red Water, and Tucker voting in favor, while voters in Conehatta and Standing Pine opposed. 

Under current tribal law, criminal penalties are removed for Mississippi medical cannabis cardholders who possess legal limits on tribal lands. The referendum notes that cannabis remains outlawed federally but that federal enforcement of cannabis laws “has been limited.”    

TG joined Ganjapreneur in 2014 as a news writer and began hosting the Ganjapreneur podcast in 2016. He is based in upstate New York, where he also teaches media studies at a local university.



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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case Challenging Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Advertising Ban 

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WASHINGTON—Today, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Mississippi’s near-total ban on medical marijuana advertising, brought by Tru Source Medical Cannabis […]



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