Every vape on the wall is a controlled substance. One legal cart is left.

One. A licensed Compassionate Use Program dispensary can sell you a vape product if your prescription in the CURT registry includes the pulmonary inhalation route. Nothing on a smoke shop, gas station, or vape store shelf qualifies anymore: SB 2024 banned hemp vapes in September 2025, all inhalable hemp came off Texas retail on March 31, 2026, and delta-8, delta-10, THCP and THCA went onto the state Schedule I on July 31, 2026. There is no third category. Either the product came from a state-licensed dispensary against a prescription, or possessing it is a controlled substance offense.

Not the potency, which is the part people get backwards. The dispensary cart is frequently stronger than what the smoke shop sold. What makes it legal is Occupations Code chapter 169: a qualified physician entered a prescription for you into a state registry, and a DPS-licensed organization dispensed against it. The hemp products were legal because of a loophole in how THC was measured, and Texas closed the measurement. The medical products are legal because of a statute, and statutes do not expire in a Tuesday rule change.

No, and this is the single most misread number in the program. Ten milligrams caps a single dose, not the product. A half-gram cartridge at 85 to 90 percent runs roughly 425 to 450 mg of THC in total; the separate package cap is 1 gram of total THC. So a dose is a pull or two, and a cartridge is dozens of doses. The dosing instruction lives on the label, not in the hardware.

Almost always the inhalation route. The prescription your physician entered specifies routes of administration, and if pulmonary inhalation is not on it, the dispensary cannot dispense an inhalable product to you no matter how valid the prescription is. The fix is a message to your prescribing physician asking them to add the route to your CURT record. It is a records change, not a new evaluation, and most clinics handle it without another visit or another fee. Ask before you assume you need to pay for one.

No. HB 46 authorized pulmonary inhalation as a route, and separately kept the prohibition on smoking. Vaporizing an approved product is in; combusting plant material is out, and licensed Texas dispensaries do not carry flower or pre-rolls at all. If a website is selling you Texas flower, it is not a licensed dispensary.

With a cartridge, usually — licensed half-gram carts are 510-thread and fit a common battery. With an all-in-one device, no, because there is nothing to attach it to: the battery is sealed into the same body as the oil. That is the practical difference between the two formats on the menu, and it is worth knowing which one you are adding to the cart before you check out rather than after it arrives.

They are rechargeable, then disposable: you charge the device over its life, and when the gram of oil is gone the hardware goes with it, because it cannot be refilled or re-carted. On value, do the math rather than the vibe. Texas Original sells the 1g all-in-one at $100 and a 0.5g cartridge at $45, with batteries at $10 to $20. A gram in cartridge form is $90 plus a one-time battery; a gram all-in-one is $100 with the battery included and then thrown away. First purchase, they are effectively even and the sealed device is simpler. After you own a battery, cartridges are the cheaper gram every single time.

Yes. It is THC, it metabolizes like THC, and a standard urine panel cannot distinguish a prescribed Texas cartridge from anything else. Texas gives TCUP patients no employment protection: an at-will termination after a positive test is lawful here, and federally regulated roles such as DOT, TWIC, and active duty get no shield at all. Read our employment page before your first order, not after.

What you were treating might, and the label you used for it does not matter. Chronic pain lasting more than 90 days qualifies since HB 46, and so do PTSD, epilepsy, cancer, MS and others. Describe the actual problem to the evaluating physician, honestly, including how long it has been going on. If nothing underlying is there, this program is not a workaround and no honest clinic will pretend otherwise.

Usually days, occasionally the same day. There is no state application, no state fee, and no card to wait for: a telehealth physician evaluates you, enters the prescription, and a dispensary verifies you by name and date of birth when you order. Delivery reaches every Texas address. The evaluation is the only gate, and it runs $45 to $199 depending on the service.