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
December 29, 2025 | Cosmic Spielberg & Disclosure Day For nearly half a century, Steven Spielberg has used cinema to rehearse humanity for a moment he has never fully shown on screen: official extraterrestrial disclosure. His protégé, J. J. Abrams, inherited this framework—and in Super 8, echoed it with near-surgical precision. When viewed al… Read Article
December 16, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Trump’s Schedule III play The better question is simpler and more unnerving: what happens when a President decides the machinery already sitting on the table should finally be used the way it was built to be used—and staffs the relevant agencies with people who don’t confuse delay with virtue. According to the Washington … Read Article
December 15, 2025 | UFOs & CONSPIRACY Alex Jones: Austin’s Public-Access Alchemist Who Turned Paranoia into a Media Empire Before algorithms decided what Americans should think, before podcasts became corporate, and long before “alternative media” was a marketing category, there was Austin, Texas—hot, strange, conspiratorial, and wide open. Out of that chaos emerged Alex Jones: a bullhorn-wielding public-access fireb… Read Article
December 14, 2025 | Crime Case Closed: Do We Finally Have Answers to the Decades-long Yogurt Shop Murders Mystery? A community breathes a sigh of relief as a decades-long cold case is solved. Read Article
December 12, 2025 | Cannabis News The National Cannabis Violations Texas Cannot Ignore For the first time, the nation’s biggest cannabis corporations—multi-state operators with headquarters, licenses, and major market share in Illinois and other key states—are lining up for a limited number of medical cannabis licenses here. These are the companies that dominate Chicago’s cannabis … Read Article
December 12, 2025 | Legislative The Day the Federal Government Finally Stopped Lying About Marijuana For more than fifty years, the federal government has maintained a position about marijuana that almost everyone involved understood to be false. Not unsettled, not ambiguous, but false in the ordinary sense of the word. Since 1970, cannabis has been classified under federal law as a Schedule I c… Read Article
December 9, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Big Marijuana’s Texas Play: Political Editor, Blazed News Inside DPS’s High-Risk Bet on Nine MSOs—and Why the Industry Pushed Back Texas has quietly crossed a threshold that will define the future of its medical cannabis program—and possibly its broader cannabis policy—for years to come. On December 2, the Texas Department … Read Article
December 8, 2025 | News 2025 GUMMY Challenge – BLAZED MAGAZINE THC CHALLENGE CONTINUES WITH OUR Best of 2025 GUMMY Challenge is this WINTER! Like our Beverage & Flower contest, your brand will compete for 2025 Gummie of the Year! SUBMIT YOUR GUMMY BY DEC 21ST WHEN YOU PURCHASE A Full Page Ad • OR A 1/2 Page Ad https://youtube…. Read Article
December 6, 2025 | Cultivation Geremy Greens: Harvest Is Over—Now What? Curing and Stuff Another harvest season is officially behind us, and for growers across the state, this is where the real work begins. People love talking about planting, feeding, and flushing—but drying and curing is where flower becomes medicine, and where a lot of good work can go sideways fas… Read Article
December 6, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Compassionate Use Program: 9 New Licensee Texas is taking meaningful steps to strengthen the Texas Compassionate Use Program following the passage of HB 46. New qualifying conditions like chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, Crohn’s disease, and hospice care are now in effect, and DSHS has adopted rules for approving inhalation devices … Read Article
December 2, 2025 | UFOs & CONSPIRACY The Age of Disclosure: Film Review What It Claims to Be The film, directed by Dan Farah, centers on the claim — laid out by 34 former government, military, and intelligence-community insiders — that non-human intelligence has visited Earth, that there’s been a decades-long cover-up, and possibly a secret “reverse-engineering… Read Article
November 18, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Big Marijuana’s Next Target: Texas Compassionate Use Program A Cautionary Tale of Federal Taxes and Recreational Lobbying Originally passed by the Texas Legislature and signed by Governor Abbott in 2015, the Texas Compassionate Use Program was structured with the intent of a “right to try” limited program. Similar to other state medical cannabis programs, … Read Article
November 2, 2025 | Legislative Hemp Held Hostage: Washington Shutdown Threatens America’s $30 Billion Industry As Congress stumbles into another government shutdown standoff, the real casualties aren’t just federal employees or political reputations — it’s America’s $30+ billion hemp industry and the millions of workers, farmers, and small business owners who depend on it. At the center of t… Read Article
