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
October 8, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Texas Hemp’s Turning Point: From Panic to Partnership The Quiet Majority Has Spoken—Now It’s Time to Act Like It Texans are not confused about hemp. They’re tired of chaos. Poll after poll shows most voters—Democrats, Republicans, rural, suburban, and urban alike—support legal hemp and cannabis when framed around order, safety, and responsibi… Read Article
September 30, 2025 | News Texas Slams the Brakes: TABC Emergency Rule Raises Hemp Age Limit to 21 Texas regulators have once again shifted the ground beneath the state’s hemp industry. On September 23, the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) issued an emergency rule barring the sale of consumable hemp products to anyone under twenty-one. The rule took effect immediately, but enforcemen… Read Article
September 23, 2025 | Legislative Rand Paul Warns of Looming Federal Hemp Ban Amid THC Debate WASHINGTON, D.C. — September 17, 2025 — U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), one of hemp’s most consistent defenders on Capitol Hill, issued a stark warning this week: unless Congress changes course, language buried in pending federal spending bills could “eradicate the hemp industry” within two weeks…. Read Article
September 18, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Texas Hemp Shops Raided on Junk Science, Judge Refuses to Step In Well, Texas did it again. A federal judge just told a couple of hemp shop owners in Abilene, “sorry folks, you’re on your own.” Here’s what happened. Brennon and Brittany Manske run CBD House of Healing. Like a lot of Texas hemp businesses, they’ve been trying to carve out a place in this messy, … Read Article
September 10, 2025 | CBD News & Business Texas Governor Abbott Sidesteps Legislature with Executive Order on Hemp Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken matters into his own hands. On September 10, Abbott signed an executive order directing the Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC), and the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to immediately regulate intoxicati… Read Article
September 10, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Abbott’s GA-56: Age Gates by Fiat, Testing by Rule—And the Legal Holes in Between Governor Greg Abbott has signed Executive Order GA-56, directing state agencies to bar minors from purchasing hemp-derived products, tighten laboratory testing and labeling, and coordinate enforcement after the Legislature failed twice this summer to enact a comprehensive regulatory bill. The ord… Read Article
September 10, 2025 | Legislative Governor Gregg Abbott to act on THC Why Now? For years, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has blocked any meaningful regulation of hemp-derived THC, insisting on nothing short of a total ban. His refusal to consider responsible measures like age limits has left minors more exposed, not less. At the same time, prohibitionist voices such as G… Read Article
August 20, 2025 | Business, News Texas THC Challenge: Beverage – 2025 The 2025 Texas THC Challenge: A New Era for Blazed Magazine This year marks not only another round of the Texas THC Challenge, but also the beginning of a new chapter for us as Blazed Magazine. Formerly known as the Texas Hemp Reporter, our publication has evolved alongside the hemp and cannabis … Read Article
August 15, 2025 | Cannabis News Federal Marijuana Enforcement Just Turned a 180 On July 4, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1)” into law. Buried amid the tax and spending headlines is a structural change that matters enormously for cannabis: Congress created a multi-year Department of Justice appropriation that sits outside the annual Comme… Read Article
August 6, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Explainer: Why Governor Abbott Is Asking the Texas Supreme Court to Remove Rep. Gene Wu from Office In a move that’s being called both historic and controversial, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has asked the state’s highest court to remove Representative Gene Wu from office. Abbott’s legal team filed an emergency petition on Tuesday with the Texas Supreme Court, invoking an obscure legal tool known… Read Article
July 29, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Twin Bills, One Goal: Sweeping Hemp Crackdown Why HB 5 Mirrors SB 5. A second shoe has dropped in the Texas Legislature, and it has the same number as the first. House Bill 5, filed by Rep. Gary VanDeaver during the first called session of the 89th Legislature, is a word-for-word duplicate of Senate Bill 5 by Sen. Charles Perry. The [… Read Article
July 28, 2025 | Business Meet the Happy Cactus: Fighting for Hemp The landscape of hemp and marijuana in the State of Texas has been an absolute minefield, and Todd Harris of The Happy Cactus can speak to this first-hand. From being targeted by a 51-year-old publication to having his shop visited by none other than Dan Patrick himself, Todd has had to defend hi… Read Article
