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Top Texas medical cannabis provider sprouts new DFW pickup location

Medical cannabis is a budding market in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Popular medical cannabis supplier Texas Original continues its expansion through Dallas-Fort Worth with the opening of its first-ever permanent pickup location in Hurst.

Texas Original's new shop opened August 9 at 760 Airport Fwy. #300 D. The shop provides its full range of medical cannabis products to patients through the Texas Compassionate Use Program (CUP).

“Patients deserve safe and reasonable access to medical cannabis, and we’re excited to bring that to our neighbors in the Dallas-Fort Worth area,” says Texas Original CEO Nico Richardson in a release. “Delivering life-changing medicine to every Texan who needs it is our North Star."

The new shop follows a recent opening of another location in Arlington in June. The medical cannabis company operates the largest distribution network in Texas, with four additional pickup locations throughout DFW: North Dallas, Frisco, Fort Worth, and Addison. Texas Original also offers a delivery service to bring prescriptions to patients.

The new Hurst shop provides the most convenient location for most customers in the growing northeast Tarrant County corridor, including those in Colleyville, Bedford, Euless, Grapevine, and Southlake.

"Since opening the state’s first medical cannabis dispensary in 2018, we’ve committed to making high-quality, Texas-grown medicine more accessible across the state,” Richardson says.

According to their website, Texas Original's hope is to change Texans' perspective on marijuana through "the power and the truth of medical cannabis."

Conditions that are treated with medical cannabis include many neurodegenerative disorders, neuropathy, PTSD, and epilepsy. Texans with one of these conditions can get a prescription through their physician or an online clinic that is registered with the Compassionate Use Registry of Texas.

Pickups in Hurst can be scheduled weekly on Wednesdays and Thursdays between 10 am and 4:30 pm. Texas Original has future plans to expand its operating hours to six days a week.

More information about Texas Original and its newest Hurst location can be found on their website.

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Amazon goes on holiday hiring spree with 13K open positions in Dallas

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Soon the holidays will be here, and that means an influx of seasonal work from Amazon, which is on a holiday hiring spree.

According to a release, the company is hiring 250,000 employees throughout the U.S. in full-time, seasonal, and part-time roles across its operations network.

More than 28,000 of those will be in Texas with nearly half — 13,000 employees — to be hired in Dallas-Fort Worth. (Houston will be hiring more than 5,100, Austin more than 4,100, and San Antonio more than 2,600 workers. Waco gets 1,700-plus new positions, and El Paso, more than 300.)

Those include a diverse range of roles, from packing and picking to sorting and shipping, available to applicants from all backgrounds and experience levels.

Customer fulfillment and transportation employees can earn, on average, over $20.50 per hour for those roles, and up to $28 depending on location. Interested candidates can see hiring locations and open positions at amazon.com/apply.

"The holiday season is always a special time at Amazon and we’re excited to hire 250,000 additional people this year to help serve customers across the country," says Amazon SVP John Felton. "Whether someone is looking for a short-term way to make extra money, or is hoping to take their first step toward a fulfilling and rewarding career at Amazon, there’s a role available for them."

According to Felton, a fulfillment or transportation employee who starts today will see a 13 percent increase in pay over the next three years, on top of offerings like pre-paid college tuition and health care benefits on day one.

Jobs in Amazon’s operations network include: stowing, picking, packing, sorting, shipping customer orders, and more, available in hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S., with a range of full- or part-time hours.

For anyone interested in learning more about what it’s like to work at Amazon, they offer free behind-the-scenes tours to the public at amazontours.com.

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