April 7, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Lawsuit to Decide Future of Texas Hemp The State Tried to Rewrite the Law Without Passing One Filed tonight in Travis County, the hemp industry’s lawsuit against Texas regulators is not a routine administrative skirmish. It is a direct challenge to one of Austin’s most corrosive habits: when the Legislature declines to act, agencies a… Read Article
April 7, 2026 | CBD News & Business Washington’s Two-Handed Approach to Hemp Medicare just became the nation’s first large-scale, reliable buyer of hemp — provided you are old enough, sick enough, and compliant enough to qualify. Everyone else — the twenty-something vaping a delta-8 cart in Austin, the Hill Country soccer mom with a bag of sleep gummies — is staring down … Read Article
March 29, 2026 | Legislative Texas Is Quietly Building the Case for Another THC Crackdown Senate Health and Human Services Committee given interim charge The next major fight over hemp-derived THC in Texas is already taking shape, and it is not beginning with a neutral policy review. It is unfolding just as the industry’s legal team prepares to challenge the Department of State Health… Read Article
March 25, 2026 | Pop Culture AFROMAN BEATS THE COPS IN COURT Rapper turns police raid into music… and wins on free speech Afroman just proved something loud and clear: You can turn a police raid into a hit song — and win in court. The rapper, best known for “Because I Got High,” came out victorious in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff… Read Article
March 24, 2026 | CBD News & Business Alcohol Industry Pushes Back: Regulate Hemp Drinks, Don’t Ban Them As lawmakers move closer to cracking down on hemp-derived THC products, the alcohol industry is stepping into the fight—and surprisingly, they’re not calling for prohibition. Instead, a major alcohol trade group is urging Congress to regulate hemp THC beverages rather than ban them outright, argu… Read Article
March 19, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Shipping THCA Flower to Texas: What Vendors Need to Know While out-of-state vendors are not directly bound by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) retail ban, ordering THCA flower into Texas after March 31, 2026, carries significant legal and practical risks. Retail Ban Scope: The new DSHS rules specifically prohibit the manufacture, di… Read Article
March 14, 2026 | UFOs & CONSPIRACY Rising Tensions and the Fear of “False Flags” in a New Era of Global Conflict As geopolitical tensions escalate around the world, a growing number of analysts and independent media commentators are warning about the potential for a “false flag” event — an attack carried out in a way that falsely blames another party (in this case, Iran); in order to justify war or politica… Read Article
March 9, 2026 | Hemp The Texas Hemp Regulatory Clampdown Why the New DSHS Rules Demand Immediate Legal Challenge The Department of State Health Services has finalized sweeping amendments to 25 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 300, the regulatory framework governing the manufacture, distribution, and retail sale of consumable hemp products in Te… Read Article
February 24, 2026 | Cannabis News, Hemp, Legislative Federal Hemp Loophole Must Be Implemented With No Delay By Jordan Zuccarelli | In case you missed it, a new op-ed in the Washington Examiner highlights a critical public-policy issue: the federal prohibition on intoxicating hemp products that Congress passed into law with bipartisan support last November must be fully implemented this year, without de… Read Article
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
