When Susan Hays asked Tyler Klimas, former director of the Cannabis Regulators Association, how Texas should move forward with lab testing, he advised building out the Texas medical cannabis program (TCUP) and copying the best practices from other states that have already figured it out.
“You’re not exactly flying in the dark here,” he said. “You have 24 adult-use states and 36 medical states to rely on. You have the blueprint, you just have to get the resources.”