The Austin Chronic: Inside Texas’ Busiest Medical Cannabis Facility

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State restrictions are bonkers, but that hasn't stopped Texas Original from expanding

Texas Original CEO Nico Richardson, Kevin Curtin, and Director of Cultivation Jason Sanders in a room of cannabis plants one week from harvest

Along the corridor, there's a"Wall of Fame" with pictures of patients whose lives have been transformed by the medicine thatproduces and dispenses. One honoree, old enough to remember marijuana's initial prohibition, now uses it for Alzheimer's, but many are young kids with seizure disorders, including one whose chart shows how a cannabis tincture reduced their weekly seizure count from over 700 to under 100.

"That is how Texas regulates medical cannabis, which makes no sense because if we put that [ratio] in soda it could be 1,000 mg of THC – enough to drug a donkey for a week," says Richardson, who, last session, consulted with lawmakers on the promising, bipartisan-supported, which could have improved prescription guidelines and expanded qualifying conditions to include chronic pain had it received a Senate vote.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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