Who writes this
TXGreenPass is written and maintained by people enrolled in the Texas Compassionate Use Program. We have sat through the telehealth evaluation, waited for the CURT entry, compared the menus, and paid the prices listed on this site out of our own pockets. That is the reason the detail on these pages runs deeper than the national sites: we are describing a process we go through, not one we researched once.
We publish without bylines, and the reason is on our own employment page. Texas gives TCUP patients no job protection of any kind. An at-will termination after a positive test is lawful here, and federally regulated roles get nothing at all. Asking a Texas patient to attach their legal name to a cannabis site in exchange for a credibility signal is asking them to take a risk this site exists to warn people about. We are not going to recommend caution on one page and ignore it on another.
What we will do instead is show our work. Every claim below is checkable without knowing our names.
Where the facts come from
Statutory claims cite the statute. When this site says a prescription has no expiration date, it is pointing at Texas Occupations Code 169.003, which sets a 90-day supply and up to four refills and never mentions an expiry. When it says the possession protection runs to the patient, that is Health and Safety Code 481.111(e). We read the text rather than repeat what other cannabis sites say about it, which is how the "renew annually" advice imported from card states ended up being repeated across an entire industry that does not operate under Texas law.
Prices and locations come from the operator's own page, never from an aggregator. Every dispensary address on this site was checked against the dispensary's own location list, and every evaluation price against the provider's own pricing page. When a provider does not publish a price, we say so rather than estimate one.
What we re-check, and when
Freshness is the only real advantage a small site has over a national one, so the re-check schedule is part of the build rather than a good intention:
- Dispensary addressesEvery pickup location re-verified against the operator's own page at least quarterly, and after any DPS announcement. Last checked October 12, 2026.
- Evaluation pricesChecked against each provider's own pricing page. Last checked October 16, 2026.
- The hemp ban timelineThe dates in this cascade have already moved once. We re-check before each deadline rather than after it.
- License awardsThe 12 conditional licensees are tracked against DPS announcements, including the May 2026 corrected tabulation that rescinded three awards.
Each of those dates is printed on the page it governs, at the bottom, next to the content it applies to. If a date looks stale to you, it is stale — that is what it is there for.
When we get it wrong
We correct the page and we say what changed. A recent example, because an abstract corrections policy is worth very little: this site spent several weeks telling readers the federal hemp THC ban landed in November 2026. That was right when it was written and wrong by September, because H.R. 6500 split the rule into two dates and moved the one that matters in Texas to December 11, 2026. Eight pages carried the old date. All eight were rewritten the day we caught it, and the reasoning is recorded in the project's own notes so the next person touching those pages knows why the date is what it is.
If you find something wrong, hello@txgreenpass.com reaches us. Corrections to a factual claim take priority over everything else we are working on.
How this site makes money, and what that does not buy
We earn a referral fee when a reader uses our links to book a telehealth evaluation or to order from a licensed dispensary. That is disclosed beside every comparison table on the site, and the links carry the markup that tells search engines they are sponsored.
Here is the part most affiliate sites leave out. The services we compare are services we have, or are pursuing, a referral relationship with. That is a commercial choice and you should read the table knowing it: cheaper Texas evaluations are advertised than the ones listed here, and we are not the right place to find out about them. We would rather say that in plain language than let a comparison table imply it surveyed a market it did not.
What the fee does not do is set the order or soften the writing. The table is sorted by price, cheapest first, which puts the service that pays us least at the top and the most expensive at the bottom. We have published the fact that one provider charges exactly as much for a renewal as for a new patient, and that another stopped stating a refund policy on its own site. We have also told readers, repeatedly and against our own interest, that a prescription offers no protection from a drug test and that nobody in a federally regulated job should assume otherwise. A site optimizing purely for referral volume would not lead with that.
What we are not
We are not physicians, we are not a medical practice, and nothing here is medical advice. We do not diagnose, we do not tell you whether you qualify, and we do not know your situation. A qualified physician registered with the Compassionate Use Program makes that call, and that conversation is the one that matters — not this website.