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
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
