AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new report from the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) indicates the state should do more to make medical marijuana accessible. The DPS report analyzed the state’s Compassionate Use Program.
The goal of the report was to see if it could provide reasonable access of to patients statewide. It found because Texas is so large, it causes unique problems for both patients and dispensaries.
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“We have to take all of our products from our pick-up location. So what you would think as a dispensary, or a retail location, and at the end of the night, anything that’s not sold or picked up by patients, and drive it back to our central location in Austin,” Jervonne Singletary, Senior Director of Government Relations for Goodblend, said.
That is one of the biggest problems Texas dispensary owners said they face when it comes to the Compassionate Use Program, also referred to as CUP. In a new 70-page report by DPS, a third-party looked at how the state is handling the program and what can be done better.