Paxton's Bill Strips Patients of Many Protections

  The Tuttle farmer who served on the Bicameral Marijuana Interim Study is now ready to start cutting away at the patients' rights and liberties  that were voted into law by the voters, just last June. 
  SB1030 has several changes to state law which would impact the medical patients' opportunities to remain employable, despite their health challenges.    

1. It would allow municipalities the right to ban all inhaled forms of medication consumption outside of a private residence.
2. It allows employers to fire a person just for possessing a patient card, even if they have never had THC in their system
3. It removes some of the medical privacy status of patient cardholder data.
4. It adds a local sales tax to the 7% sales tax, & removes the excise classification of the current collections.
5. It increases the criminal penalty for unlawful possession from $400 & no jail time; up to $1000 & 1 year of jail.

Nothing in the bill provides any additional help to the veterans with PTSD, or the cancer patients getting chemotherapy treatment. Both would face added struggles due to Paxton's new statutory punishments.

Paxton has served on his local hospital board and as head of the local chamber of commerce.

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