Texas has no recreational or adult-use cannabis program, so no social-equity licensing exists in Dallas. The state's narrow Compassionate Use Program (CUP) licenses three dispensing organizations statewide with no equity preference. Dallas cannot create a local cannabis license while state prohibition stands.
Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 481 classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, with no recreational legalization framework. The Compassionate Use Program under H&S Code Chapter 487, administered by the Texas Department of Public Safety, licenses only three vertically integrated dispensing organizations to serve qualifying patients with low-THC cannabis. CUP applications use a competitive merit process with no social-equity weighting for Black, brown, prior-conviction, or low-income applicants. Dallas City Hall has no authority to create a parallel municipal cannabis license while state law preempts the field. Dallas voters approved a marijuana decriminalization charter amendment in 2024 (Proposition R), but the Texas Attorney General sued and a court has blocked enforcement.
Not applicable to licensing. Operating any unlicensed cannabis sales remains a felony under TX H&S Code Section 481.120, with penalties scaling from state-jail felony to first-degree felony.
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