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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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Fugitive News

Dallas Police Department arrests 99 fugitives in summer crime program

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The Dallas Police Department has a new round of arrests in Operation Justice Trail, a coordinated effort led by Police Chief Daniel Comeaux to apprehend individuals with violent felony warrants, with 99 fugitives arrested and taken into custody during June.

The program is a partnership between the Dallas Police Department and the United States Marshals Service which began on May 1, with a goal to identify and take into custody violent criminals. During the firest month of May, a nearly-identical haul of 98 violent felons were arrested, and the initiative will continue through the summer.

“Our goal is simple: to make Dallas the safest large city in America,” Chief Comeaux says in a statement. “We know that a small percentage of violent criminals are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. By focusing our efforts on these individuals, we are sending a clear message—violence will not be tolerated in our city.”

These 99 fugitives, who collectively have 616 total arrests for crimes such as Assault on a Public Servant, Manufacture/Delivery of a Controlled Substance, Murder, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Sexual Abuse of a Child, Reckless Driving, and Stalking, were taken into custody by the Dallas Police Department Fugitive Unit and U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force between June 1–30.

Of those 99 fugitives, 22 were women and 77 were men. Three had arrests for Illegal Entry into the U.S., and one had an arrest for Alien Inadmissibility - Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Officials told Fox 4 that officers used "a combination of the city’s camera system and old-fashioned good police work" to make the arrests.

North Texas Crime Stoppers is offering a guaranteed $1,000 reward for tips submitted to the crime stoppers tipline that lead to the arrest of any individual with an existing felony warrant for specific crimes, until August 31.

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