Businessman Has N. Texas Town in Sights for Facility to Produce Oil to Treat Epilepsy GUNTER - A cotton gin that sat empty for decades in this small North Texas town could be filled next year with the first cannabis plants legally grown in the state. Jae S. Lee/Staff Photographer Patrick Moran, president and co-founder of the Texas Cannabis Industry Association, aims to plant Texas' first legal cannabis plants in Gunter. A statute enacted last year paves the way for cultivation of non-psychoactive cannabis to produce CBD oil for treating people with severe epilepsy. [continues 1340 words]
Arlington SWAT officers raided a garden commune this month but didn't find marijuana, only code violations. Authorities received two complaints that those living at the Garden of Eden were growing and distributing marijuana in the 7000 block of Mansfield Cardinal Road, police Sgt. Christopher Cook said. Cook said police worked with the city of Kennedale as they completed a search of the property Aug. 2. Several people were handcuffed briefly, the city says, before being released and allowed to continue tending the sustainability garden. [continues 153 words]
