The second Texas Cannabis Policy Conference was held on Friday and Saturday at the Memorial Student Conference and featured talks from a state senator, medical professionals and industry experts.
Sponsored by the Texas A&M Soil & Crop Sciences Department, the conference aimed to influence state policy on cannabis possession and use. Both federal and state laws classify marijuana as a controlled substance. In Texas, delivery and possession of it is a criminal offense in most cases.
Terrence Baugh, the community relations manager for Goodblend, one of three licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in Texas, attended in hopes of raising awareness of the Compassionate Use Program, which allows Texans to use marijuana for medical purposes.
"[The conference] happens every two years, in line with legislative sessions … so that we can all align as a cannabis community here in Texas to see what policies are going to be changed, what are we looking for [and] what are we going to be asking for. And we make sure that there's alignment between the factions because there's the hemp side of things and the medical marijuana side of things," Baugh said.
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