Police Misconduct, Medical Cannabis: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week

A bill that would expand the state's medical marijuana program looks like it's headed to wider debate in the Texas House.

click to enlarge Under a new bill approved by a Texas House subcommittee, more Texans would be able to access medical cannabis. - Unsplash / Budding
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Under a new bill approved by a Texas House subcommittee, more Texans would be able to access medical cannabis.
A lawsuit alleging unnecessary roughness by Kendall County deputies and a pair of stories looking at efforts to expand medical cannabis in the state were the Current's most-read stories of the week.

In the case of the Kendall County incident, a San Antonio man has filed a civil suit that maintains that he was injured badly enough to require multiple surgeries on his shoulder when Kendall deputies roughed him up as part of an active-shooter training session he volunteered to participate in.

The cannabis stories looked at a Texas House subcommittee approving a bill for wider debate that would allow pain patients to enroll in the state's limited medical weed program and a new dispensary serving patients who are already enrolled.

Interestingly, the Current's fourth most read story of the week was about a study that purportedly shows Texas is home to some of the nation's happiest college campuses. Wonder how much of that comes down to the weed.

10. After Nashville shooting, San Antonio lockdowns, parents beg NISD board for more security

9. MAGA 'cult' sings alternative version of national anthem during Trump rally in Waco

8. San Antonio has highest rate of STDs of Texas' big cities, study finds

7. House panel advances new Texas budget with property tax cuts, teacher pay raises

6. Guitarist Joanne Shaw Taylor may hail from across the pond, but she’s all about American blues

5. Owner of San Antonio bar Moses Rose's says he's suing Texas General Land Office

4. Texas is home to some of the nation's happiest college campuses, study says

3. Texas medical cannabis supplier goodblend opens its first brick-and-mortar dispensary in the state

2. Bill moving forward in Texas House would allow pain patients to access medical cannabis

1. Kendall County sheriff sued over claim deputies beat the shit out of man during active shooter training

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