July 10, 2026 | News BLAZED MAGAZINE 2026 THC CHALLENGE Flower of the Year & Beverage of the Year Competition Underway The race for the 2026 Blazed THC Challenge is officially underway as Blazed Magazine prepares to recognize the best products in the industry during the week of the CHAMPS Trade Shows in Austin this October. The mission is s… Read Article
July 7, 2026 | CBD News & Business State Cannabis Sales Exceeding $29 Billion in 2025 Denver, CO: State-legal cannabis revenues and job growth held relatively steady in 2025, according to data compiled by Vangst Staffing and Whitney Economics. Sales of state-licensed cannabis products totaled $29.1 billion in 2025 – down slightly from $30.1 billion in 2024. The report’s authors su… Read Article
July 1, 2026 | Cannabis News The History of Cannabis in New Mexico New Mexico’s cannabis history is a story of changing laws, patient advocacy, and a gradual shift from prohibition to regulation. For much of the 20th century, cannabis was treated as an illegal substance under state and federal law, but New Mexico later became one of the first states to recognize… Read Article
June 26, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News DSHS to Enforce New Rules after THBC Motion for Rehearing Texas Begins Enforcing New Total THC Rule: What the DSHS Crackdown Means for Hemp Retailers The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has begun actively enforcing new Consumable Hemp Program rules that dramatically change how THC is measured in hemp products, creating significan… Read Article
June 25, 2026 | Health Smoke, Science, and Stigma: What 20 Years of Cannabis Research Really Says About Lung Health For generations, cannabis opponents leaned heavily on one of prohibition’s most familiar warnings: smoke enough marijuana, and your lungs would inevitably pay the price much like cigarettes. But one of the most significant long-term pulmonary studies ever conducted tells a far more nuanced story…. Read Article
June 25, 2026 | Pop Culture Tommy Chong: The Last Outlaw of Cannabis Culture At nearly 88 years old, Tommy Chong is still here. “I’m still here. I’m having fun. I’m really in a really good space now.” It is the kind of deceptively simple statement only Tommy Chong could deliver with both humor and gravity. For most public figures, surviving more than five decades in enter… Read Article
June 23, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Did DSHS Just Tell the Hemp Industry to Ignore Its Own Rules Until After the Election? A motion for rehearing tells a strange story. Did DSHS Just Tell the Hemp Industry to Ignore Its Own Rules Until After the Election? There are moments in public policy when the mask slips. According to a motion filed Sunday in the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, representatives of the Texas Departmen… Read Article
June 17, 2026 | Cannabis News The DEA Affidavit, Jason Vedadi, and the Questions Facing Texas Regulators As Texas expands its Compassionate Use Program and awards additional medical cannabis licenses, the public has been assured repeatedly that applicants and their principals undergo extensive scrutiny. That assurance is supposed to matter. The licenses issued by the Texas Department of Public Safet… Read Article
June 2, 2026 | Pop Culture Dope Pros Hemp: Built by the Culture Fighting for the Future of Cannabis In an industry increasingly dominated by corporate money, regulatory uncertainty, and political battles, some brands continue to represent the grassroots spirit that built modern cannabis culture. One of those companies is Dope Pros Hemp. Founded in Texas durin… Read Article
May 27, 2026 | Legislative Rogan, Psychedelics, and Schedule III: Trump’s White House Signals a Historic Shift in Drug Policy In what may become one of the most culturally significant drug policy moments in modern American history, podcast giant Joe Rogan reportedly joined President Donald Trump during a White House event last week tied to a groundbreaking federal push toward psychedelic medical research and accelerated… Read Article
May 22, 2026 | Cannabis News TSA Quietly Updates Marijuana Travel Policy Ahead of Federal Schedule III Shift The federal government may have just signaled one of the biggest cannabis policy shifts in modern aviation history — and most travelers never noticed it. In late April 2026, the Transportation Security Administration quietly updated its public-facing travel guidance to formally recognize “medical… Read Article
May 20, 2026 | News DEA’s June 29 Hearing Could Reshape the Future of Cannabis Capital Markets The Coming Green Economy DEA’s June 29 Hearing Could Reshape the Future of Cannabis Capital Market The cannabis industry is once again approaching a historic crossroads. On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will begin a new administrative hearing to determine wh… Read Article
May 17, 2026 | Business Most Wanted Attorney in Texas: Adam Reposa With the state’s flower ban looming in March, Texas hemp shop owners were staring at shelves full of products they suddenly might not be able to sell. Everyone was sweating – except Adam Reposa. The Austin attorney and owner of ATX Budtenders was unfazed, mostly because he’s been running a… Read Article
May 15, 2026 | Podcast Tommy Chong Interview – Blazed Weekly News Tommy Chong joins Blazed Weekly News for a conversation on cannabis, comedy, activism, pop culture, and a lifetime of changing American history. From Motown to Cheech & Chong to the modern cannabis movement — this is a legacy interview you don’t want to miss.Note: I edited in some audio clips… Read Article
May 9, 2026 | UFOs & CONSPIRACY Enter Hantavirus: Predictive Programming, Hollywood, and the Post-COVID Fear Machine Back in 1998, the Fox film The X-Files: Fight the Future used a fake “hantavirus” outbreak as the official government explanation for a deeper extraterrestrial crisis. In the film, FEMA becomes the public face of containment while the real operation remains classified beneath the surface. It was … Read Article
May 7, 2026 | News Blazed Magazine Expands Beyond Texas . . . as Hemp Industry Faces Regulatory Uncertainty As Texas continues to battle over the future of smokable hemp and THCA flower, Blazed Magazine is officially expanding its distribution footprint into neighboring states including New Mexico and Oklahoma — a strategic move designed to pr… Read Article
