Goodblend now offers same-day pickup for patients at its Austin and San Antonio stores.
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An Austin-based medical marijuana provider is taking advantage of a new Texas law to offer same-day service to its customers in San Antonio.
House Bill 46, which went into effect on Sept. 1, loosened the reins on the medical marijuana program by allowing distributors to store their products in various satellite locations, rather than requiring them to distribute it across the state on a daily basis from their central facilities.
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Before its passing, Texas medical marijuana dispensaries had to turn down patients coming to their stores for same-day relief.
At Goodblend, orders had to be placed either in-store or online before 5 p.m. for next-day pickup or delivery. Products couldn’t be kept in the stores overnight, so they were transported to the stores from its central distribution facility in South Austin on a daily basis, which limited pickup times to a narrow window. Goodblend has three stores in Texas, one each in San Antonio, Austin and Plano.
“It was just an inconvenient process, and those time gaps provided opportunities for people to look elsewhere, like a hemp shop or dealer,” said Goodblend’s community relations manager, Terrence Baugh. “This allows us to close a sale in real time, which is a big thing for consumers.”
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Starting this week, Goodblend now offers same-day pickup for patients at its San Antonio store and has expanded hours until 7 p.m. The San Antonio store at 18720 Stone Oak Parkway on the far North Side reopened Tuesday as a full dispensary, offering in-store shopping.
Its Plano dispensary is planning to make the change next month, and its Austin location on East Riverside Drive will be able to start offering same-day pickup in the first quarter of 2026.
Goodblend, a Texas-based medical marijuana provider, delivers to patients across the state.
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“Patrons and Texans have been asking for this since the beginning,” Baugh said. “Now, they’re able to come into the store, shop around, speak with a virtual physician and talk with our guides before making their purchase that day. It will feel like more of a retail experience for all those folks who are used to shopping in other recreational or medicinal states. This really changes things for the whole landscape of Texas as far as cannabis goes.”
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Goodblend, which opened its first retail store in South Austin in 2023, also delivers medical marijuana to patients in surrounding towns. It received its license in 2017 and began delivering in 2019. Before HB46, the dispensary could offer delivery only from its distribution facility, which is separate from the Austin store. But its delivery service area was limited because medical marijuana distributors only have a 24-hour window to return the cash and excess product back to the central site.
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The new law allows Goodblend to make deliveries out of its satellite locations. The San Antonio store now can handle deliveries in South and West Texas, including as far as El Paso. Its Plano store will be able to cover the North Texas region.
“There’s a misconception that the medical program is very challenging to get into, and that’s the furthest thing from the case,” Baugh said. “We make it very simple, where you can go to our website and get a prescription virtually from one of our physicians we partner with. It literally takes 15 to 30 minutes, and you can get a safe and reliable product in real time.”
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The new law is an expansion of the Texas Compassionate Use Act enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2015, permitting physicians to prescribe the use of “low-THC cannabis” to patients with conditions like epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and cancer. HB46 added traumatic brain injury, Crohn’s disease and chronic pain as qualifying conditions for the program.
“We’re seeing pediatric patients all the way to elderly folks and palliative care,” Baugh said. “Most of our patients are female, and there are over 150 conditions that qualify for the program, like epilepsy and diabetic neuropathy.”
Goodblend is one of three medical marijuana dispensaries in the state. It sells edibles, THC-infused beverages, tinctures and topicals to patients with a prescription. The new law also lets dispensaries expand product offerings to include cannabis patches, lotions and prescribed inhalers and vaping devices.
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But it also limited the dosage to 10 milligrams of THC per individual item. That change means that Goodblend has to stop offering one of its products, a 30-milligram edible. Previously, Texas law limited products to a cap of 1% THC by weight.
“For patients who require more THC for relief, they’ll have to get that in multiple instead of one,” Baugh said. “We got a lot of the things we wanted, and while the 10-milligram cap isn’t one of them, it’s a tradeoff we’re willing to make in order to provide more access.”
Because satellite locations can now store product, licensed medical cannabis dispensaries are no longer limited by distances and are able to open more facilities across the state. Goodblend is looking to expand, starting with the Houston area. However, dispensaries still are prohibited from being placed 1,000 feet from any private or public elementary/secondary school or day care center.
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“So many patients don’t even know that there is a medical program in Texas because we can’t reach them,” Baugh said. “We serve about 25% of the market right now, but we hope to bump that up when we get into more areas and expect to see some exponential growth throughout the overall market.”