Kevin Curtin
Music Columnist at The Austin Chronicle
Ink-stained wretch - Austin Chronicle. CEO - Manville's Non-Material Deliveries. Songwriter, hoop dreams, inventor of the Showtime Waffle Sandwich.
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3 weeks ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin
Supporters of Dallas’ decriminalization effort at a Ground Game Texas event in 2024 It should have been unsurprising, the recent court rulings that cities like Austin and San Marcos can’t prevent the enforcement of Texas’ unusually strict marijuana laws. The cases were handled by the 15th Court of Appeals, which was established in 2024 with three conservative judges appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott.
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1 month ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin
Medical cannabis products being created in a lab setting at Texas Original in Austin Last month, as the House Public Health Committee closed a hearing on House Bill 46, Chairman Ken King considered how medical marijuana may be beneficial for people at the end of their lives. “I’ll tell you right now – y’all have heard me over the years talk a lot about my mother – and I watched her die over 10 and a half weeks in hospice.
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1 month ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin
Estella Castro, co-owner of Austinite Cannabis Co. “We would NEVER!” laughs Estella Castro. “25 years ago, me and you would not be chilling on the Eastside at 7:04pm.”Estella has greeted me on the front porch of her Cesar Chavez Street shop, in a converted house that her mom owns. She’s wearing a satin baseball jacket with the logo of her business, Austinite Cannabis Co., and has a tattoo of a green weed leaf on her knuckle.
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1 month ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin
Texas Lege’s draconian bills are making even the stoners frustrated Todd and Mickey Harris, co-owners of the Happy Cactus One therapeutic aspect of marijuana that I value is that it cures frustration. For me, a single hit of weed can shut off acute frustration like a light switch, which helps me be a better parent, friend, partner, and neighbor.
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1 month ago |
austinchronicle.com | Kevin Curtin
A black-market business owner talks pricing and how underground cannabis retail has evolved in Austin There are lots of easy ways to score an ounce these days In modern discussions about cannabis legality, we often hear the term “black market” used as a pejorative, but I still hold it in high esteem.
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