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In September 2014, the NewsBuzzDaily web site published an article reporting that Texas was about to follow in the footsteps of the states of Colorado and Washington and legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational use: Soon afterwards links and excerpts referencing this item were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered it mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, Texas has no bill to legalize any form of marijuana use pending in its legislature; the last bill numbered HB 2412 presented to that body was on a completely different subject. The article was just a spoof from NewsBuzzDaily, a fake news web site whose stock in trade is publishing fabricated clickbait stories. The site's About Us page states that: In January 2016, however, life began to overtake satire when Texas agreed to allow select dispensaries to sell low-level THC products to people suffering from intractable epilepsy, whose seizures are not controllable with traditional drugs. And in June 2016, Texas news outlets began reporting that some state officials were hoping to expand the law to include more allowable uses for medical marijuana. However, as of now, the use of marijuana for recreational purposes and most medicinal purposes remains illegal in Texas.
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