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Texas Republican Party’s statewide convention voted by wide margins in favor of several roll-backs of marijuana prohibition.
With over 80 percent support, the delegates approveddecriminalizing possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, moving marijuana from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 of the United States government’s Controlled Substances Act, urging the Texas legislature to “pass legislation allowing cultivation, manufacture, and sale of industrial hemp and hemp products; expansion of the state’s rather limited low-THC cannabis oil medical program, received over 90 percent support.