“If the legal framework of marijuana changes, I don’t want to invest in equipment that three years from now basically becomes unusable because the legal framework changed again.”
Ryan Poppe / Texas Public Radio
The Texas Forensics Science Commission has worked with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency to come up with a new method of testing that could be available to prosecutors by early 2020.
From Texas Public Radio:
District attorneys throughout Texas haven’t prosecuted low-level marijuana offenses for the past few months because their forensic labs can’t tell the difference between legal hemp and marijuana.
Officials with the State of Texas, working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, say they have found a solution. But at the recent Texas Marijuana Policy Conference in Austin, some prosecutors said they’re still not convinced to make possession charges a priority.
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