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2 oz or less is a misdemeanour with up to 180 days and a $2,000 fine. Any amount of concentrate is a felony.
Charged by weight, like possession.
Jail is possible; Austin, Dallasbut Austin voters barred arrests and several other places no longer arrestcitations for small amountsmisdemeanour possession in 2022 and Dallas voters did the same for up to 4 oz in 2024.[@2,3] [Texas replaced its harshest-in-the-country law in 1973.](/history/us-texas-penalty-reform-1973/)
Giving 7 g or less without payment is a misdemeanour with up to 180 days.[@1]
A restricted low-THC medical programme, widened in 2025. Hemp-derived THC products are sold widely in a legal grey zone.[@1,4] [The 2018 farm bill opened hemp federally.](/history/us-farm-bill-2018/) [Congress closed the hemp loophole in 2025.](/history/us-hemp-thc-limit-enacted-2025/)
Marijuana Moment — Austin voters approve decriminalization (May 2022) Marijuana Moment — Dallas police told not to arrest for marijuana (January 2025) Marijuana Moment — Texas governor signs bill to significantly expand medical marijuana program (June 2025) Texas Monthly — Lee Otis, free Allen St. Pierre / NORML — Willie Nelson After His Most Recent Pot Arrest (28 November 2010) 1 unchanged
2 oz or less is a misdemeanour with up to 180 days and a $2,000 fine; the ladder climbs to 99 years for the largest weights. Any amount of concentrate is a felony.[@1]
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upto 2 oz · treatment criminal · term Class B misdemeanor · prison 180 days · fine 2000, over 2 oz · upto 4 oz · treatment criminal · term Class A misdemeanor · prison 1 year · fine 4000, over 4 oz · upto 5 lb · treatment criminal · term State jail felony · prison min 180 days · prison 2 years · fine 10000, over 5 lb · upto 50 lb · treatment criminal · term Third-degree felony · prison min 2 years · prison 10 years · fine 10000, over 50 lb · treatment criminal · term Felony · prison min 2 years · note Maximum rises with weight, to 99 years at the top of the ladder
Charged by weight, like possession: growing has no separate statute and plants are weighed as the marijuana they hold.[@1]
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label Growing · treatment criminal · term Charged by weight · note Plants count as possessed marijuana — see the possession ladder
The Compassionate Use Programme offers low-THC cannabis for a listed set of conditions, not full medical cannabis. House Bill 46, signed by the governor in 2025, added chronic pain, Crohn's disease, traumatic brain injury, terminal illness and hospice care, with more dispensaries and non-smoked products.[@4]
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Texas produced both the punishment and the protest songs. Houston activist Lee Otis Johnson got 30 years for handing an undercover officer a single joint in 1968; "Free Lee Otis" rang across campuses until a federal judge freed him in 1972.[@5] [Texas gave an activist 30 years for one joint.](/history/us-lee-otis-johnson-1968/) Willie Nelson — Texan, NORML co-chair, arrested at Sierra Blanca in 2010 — answered with his Teapot Party call to regulate and tax cannabis.[@6] [Willie Nelson was arrested in Texas in 2010.](/culture/people/willie-nelson/) [Willie Nelson was arrested in Texas in 2010.](/history/us-willie-nelson-arrest-2010/)
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