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.

An internet security researcher has discovered a public database, unsuripy and without protected words containing 957,434 personal records of patients with medical cannabis. Jeremiah Fowler on Tuesday published the findings that the recordings held by Ohio Medical Alliance LLC (OMA) – an organization that helps individuals receive medical cannabis identity cards in the state – were exposed.

Records – 323 GB at all – include images of driver licenses or identity documents from numerous countries containing names, physical addresses, birthdays and licenses numbers and files that were labeled with the first and last names of patients, contain forms of receipt, medical records, forms of issuance, a doctor’s certification forms.

“Most of the files I saw on both databases were in PDF, JPG, PNN. A CSV document called” Staff Comments “contained a large amount of internal communications, notes for clients, appointments, status or personal situations. – Fowler in a Website planet post

Fowler indicated that he sent a discovery about his findings in OMA – which operates under the marijuana card brand in Ohio – but did not hear again; However, the database was limited by the public access the next day and was no longer accessible.

A group of cannabis distributors owners filed a lawsuit against New York state regulators last week, claiming they could be forced by business because their stores are very close to schools, despite being approved by regulators, The New York Times Reports. In July, nearly 200 retail license holders of use of retail retail were informed From the cannabis management office that the location of their business “is contrary to the” state cannabis law.

The judicial proceeding, set up in the Supreme Court of the State, seeks to block the correction of the proposed proximity rules and consider businesses in accordance with the previous interpretation that allowed them to open the business in the approved place, despite the law.

In the letter to businesses, the director of OCM Acting Felicia AB Reid ESQ apologized and said she was “aware” that the information would have “consequences” for business owners. Reid added that while the affected businesses “are currently not required to change” location, it will become a matter at the time of the renovation of the license “.

“OCM cannot use the past illegal standard of review to consider a license after renovation,” the letter reads.

A bill To correct the regulatory error and grandfather in influential businesses was introduced on August 4. She is currently on the State Senate Committee.