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Fort Worth staff urges pharmacy-style rules for medical cannabis pickup sites, proposes separate industrial zoning for growers
Summary
At an Infrastructure and Growth Committee meeting, city staff recommended treating Texas Compassionate Use Program satellite dispensaries like pharmacies while creating a separate industrial use for cultivation, and said they will return to council with options for more restrictive local limits.
Stephanie Scott Sims, assistant director of development services for the City of Fort Worth, told the Infrastructure and Growth Committee that the Texas Compassionate Use Program allows DPS-licensed dispensing organizations to operate small satellite pickup sites that function like pharmacies.
“We may wish to amend the definition of a pharmacy to include these compassionate use satellite locations and continue to allow them by right in all commercial and industrial zoning districts,” Stephanie Scott Sims said, framing staff’s recommendation to treat satellite dispensaries like pharmacy pickup locations while defining cultivation, processing and packaging as separate industrial uses.
Under 2025’s HB 46, the state must issue up to 15 licenses for dispensing organizations. Sims said three organizations have…
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