Killeen, TX Cannabis Regulations: Home Cultivation (2026)

Sec. 121(a) makes it an offense to knowingly or intentionally possess a usable quantity of marihuana unless the chapter authorizes it, and the chapter carves out no home-grow allowance the way some states' laws do for a small number of personal plants. A home grower who harvests and dries their own crop is possessing a usable quantity the moment it is cured, and Sec. 121(b) grades that offense purely by weight, from a Class B misdemeanor at two ounces or less up to a first-degree felony above 2,000 pounds; a handful of mature plants can easily push a grower from misdemeanor into state-jail-felony territory once the harvested weight passes four ounces.

The statute's only built-in defense, in Sec. 121(c) through (e), is narrow and unrelated to cultivation: it protects someone who was the first to call for emergency medical help during a suspected drug overdose, or who was the overdose victim themselves, and only for a misdemeanor amount, and only if the caller stayed on scene and cooperated. That defense does not apply to a grower cited for the plants or product found during a search unrelated to a medical emergency call. Because possession itself is illegal regardless of source, Killeen has no local ordinance authorizing or regulating a home marijuana garden, and the city's marijuana-enforcement policy (Ch.

22, Art. V) limiting when Killeen police cite or arrest for simple possession does not extend to cultivation, which can implicate the manufacture provisions of the same chapter.