The Department of Public Safety in Texas (DPS) has posted project -regulatory project to expand the number of licenses of medical cannabis distributors in the state under the legislation Signed in law In June, Marijuana moment Reports.

The proposed rules, which were Published Friday In the Texas register, they have entered a period of 30-day public comments.

Whereas the rules’ The most important change would be to add twelve new distribution licenses – currently, there are only three – the rules also seek to specify the licensing powers of state officials, especially when it comes to revocation of licenses. The first round of licensing will only be available for a group of 139 applicants that are recorded during a previous application window in 2023, the report said.

Proposal signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) also calls for the expansion of the list of program qualification conditions to include chronic pain, Crohn disease, latest life care and traumatic brain damage (TBI).

Meanwhile, while Texas officials are working to implement the latest medical cannabis extensions, state lawmakers are maneuvering at a special legislative session to capture the hemp products derived from hemp. Senate passed a proposal Last week stopping thc products completely, although the governor vetoed similar legislation in June.

The 11th District Court of Appeal at the US on Wednesday ruled in favor of a group of patients with medical cannabis in Florida, who claimed that their prevention from possession of weapons due to their medical practices prescribed by the doctor is unconstitutional, Reuters Reports.

Federal law prevents anyone who consumes a federal controlled substance – such as cannabis, which remains the program under federal law – from the legally possession of firearms. However, the lawsuit depends on a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that requires that weapons restrictions be “in accordance with the historical tradition of this nation of firearm.”

Originally accompanied by the then agricultural commissioner Florida Nikki Fried (D), plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in 2022arguing that federal policy violates the second change of patients with state -approved medical cannabis. The lawsuit also claimed that politics violates a provision of the Congress budget to prevent federal interference in state -level cannabis programs.

“As we have argued since the beginning of this case, the 2nd change does not allow the federal government to categorically consider all marijuana medical patients to be very dangerous to exercise their essential constitutional rights.” – William Hall, lawyer for plaintiffs in Jones Walker, in a statement

It is the second major victory for the owners of cannabis patient weapons this year after the 5th District Court of the US in January Riafirmova that the federal pursuit of a Mississippi man who was caught possessing a firearm while also consuming cannabis had violated the second change.