February 23, 2026 | Legislative GMP Is the Hemp Industry’s Armor The Texas hemp industry does not have a marketing problem. It has a credibility problem. That distinction matters. When legislators talk about “unregulated intoxicants,” when law enforcement conducts raids with television cameras in tow, when opponents describe the market as a public healt… Read Article
February 17, 2026 | Events The Sweetest Showdown Yet Inside the Blazed Magazine 2026 Gummy Challenge If you want to understand where the infused edible market is headed, do not look at flashy billboards or exaggerated marketing copy. Look at the gummies. The Blazed Magazine Gummy Challenge 2026 brought together some of the most ambitious names in h… Read Article
February 17, 2026 | Hemp Trump Saves Ganja, Part I — Reform in Washington, Raids in the Real World Texas has a way of clarifying things. You can talk theory all day in a committee room, but sooner or later somebody’s boots hit the ground and you find out what the law actually means. That is where we are with federal cannabis policy right now—caught between a reform signal from the White House … Read Article
February 17, 2026 | CBD News & Business The China Question in the Texas Hemp War Texas does not have a marijuana industry. It has a hemp industry that Congress legalized in 2018 when President Donald Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 into law. That statute removed hemp and “all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers… Read Article
February 10, 2026 | CBD News & Business Texas Hemp Regulatory Update: Emergency Rules Extended A Narrow Window, Not a Free Pass The Texas Department of State Health Services has formally extended the emergency rules governing consumable hemp products through March 30, 2026, as reflected in the February 6, 2026 Texas Register. These rules—first adopted in October 2025—remain in effec… Read Article
February 10, 2026 | Legislative A Political Analysis of DSHS Announcement The continued use of emergency rule renewals, rather than adoption of final rules, is not accidental and it is not merely procedural housekeeping. It reflects a deliberate choice by the agency to avoid locking itself into a permanent regulatory position while legal, political, and policy variable… Read Article
February 10, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News The Lawsuit That Changes the Kratom Debate For years, kratom existed in a regulatory gray zone—debated, periodically regulated, but rarely confronted through full-scale state enforcement. That equilibrium broke on February 6, 2026, when the Texas Attorney General filed suit in Ellis County seeking an ex parte temporary restraining order, … Read Article
February 4, 2026 | Legislative Texas Lawmakers Shift Gear on Hemp THC — Regulation, Not a Ban, Now Likely in 2027 Texas lawmakers who once pushed for a total ban on hemp-derived THC products are now signaling a shift toward regulating the market instead of outlawing it — setting the stage for major hemp policy changes in the 2027 legislative session. Earlier attempts by state leaders — especially a high-prof… Read Article
January 21, 2026 | CBD News & Business, UFOs & CONSPIRACY RFK Jr.’s HHS Breaks the Silence on Cellphone Radiation – FDA Safety Claims Vanish In a surprising move this week, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to launch a federal review into the health effects of cellphone and wireless radiation, a topic long dismissed by government science. At the sam… Read Article
January 16, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News What the Supreme Court Is Really Testing in Sky Marketing The Texas Supreme Court’s hearing in Texas Department of State Health Services v. Sky Marketing had the calm, deliberate feel of a court doing what courts are supposed to do: strip away the noise, ignore the moral-panic political theatrics across the plaza in the east wing of the Capitol, and rea… Read Article
January 9, 2026 | CBD News & Business High Times’ Josh Kesselman Calls B.S. on Big Alcohol’s Anti-Weed Panic High Times publisher Josh Kesselman is calling out what he sees as a coordinated fear campaign against cannabis, driven less by public health concerns than by market pressure. n a recent interview with TMZ, Kesselman pushed back hard against viral stories claiming cannabis use is causing people t… Read Article
January 9, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Hemp, Dirty DSHS, and the Limits of Getting Cute As the hemp industry approaches the Department of State Health Services’ public comment hearing, the broader context deserves attention. Texas’s system of administrative law was built for moments exactly like this one. The Open Meetings Act, the Public Information Act, and the Administrative Proc… Read Article
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January 5, 2026 | CBD News & Business Mystery “Enforcement” Notices Appear at Austin Smoke Shops And the goal isn’t compliance — it’s fear Shortly before 10 p.m. on a Friday night in early January 2026, a man walked up to an Austin smoke shop with a bright yellow notice already peeled and ready in his hand. Security footage shows the moment clearly. He does not hesitate. He does not enter [&… Read Article
January 4, 2026 | News Blazed Texas Flower Challenge Inside the judging, the winners, and why Texas growers held their own. The Blazed Texas Flower Challenge brought together serious heat from across the country. Twenty one entrants. Five judges. One simple scoring system designed to cut through hype and get straight to the flower. Ea… Read Article
January 3, 2026 | Innovation & Hemp Technologies Blazed Gummy Challenge The Blazed Gummy Challenge: How It Works The Blazed Gummy Challenge is the next evolution of Blazed product competitions, built to evaluate one of the fastest-growing segments in the cannabis and hemp-derived market: edibles. Much like our Flower competitions, this challenge is designed to be str… Read Article
