After passing the Texas Compassionate Use Act (SB 339), which legalized CBD oil for state residents with treatment-resistant seizure disorders, Cansortium Texas will be opening the state’s first dispensary in the tiny city of Schulenburg (almost two hours outside of Houston). Luckily patients will have the option to place their orders online to be delivered to them by courier. There are only two other CBD dispensary licenses conditionally approved to operate in the state, both of which are still not fully permitted yet.



Critics have knocked SB 339 for being far too restrictive. “All medical cannabis products must be grown, processed, and distributed from approved facilities,” meaning the dispensary has to be physically located in the same building where the plants are grown. Furthermore, all patients must register with a database that could be subject to DEA review. This is all made even more absurd by the fact that you could avoid the trouble and simply walk into any health food store in Texas and pick up a bottle of “unregulated” CBD oil off the shelf.