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Blazed Magazine Expands Beyond Texas
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. . . 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…
State Appeals Texas Hemp Injunction
Industry Awaits Emergency Relief from Appeals Court The legal battle over Texas hemp products escalated again late Tuesday after the State of Texas officially filed its notice of appeal in the ongoing consumable hemp lawsuit, automatically staying the temporary injunction previously granted to th…
Blazed Magazine Enters New Mexico’s Booming Cannabis Economy
From Texas Uncertainty to New Mexico Opportunity — Blazed Moves West As regulatory uncertainty continues to cloud the future of hemp and cannabis-derived products in Texas, Blazed Magazine is making a strategic move into one of the most stable and rapidly growing cannabis markets in the co…
The Badge and the Bud
How Harlingen Became Ground Zero for Hemp Enforcement Gone Wrong A documented pattern of false statements, misread science, and legal overreach targeting licensed retailers — and what it reveals about the fragility of the rule of law when officers mistake confidence for competence. …
FDA-Approved and State-Licensed Products Are Moved to Schedule III
HCA Explicitly Excluded from Rescheduling: The biggest day in federal cannabis policy in decades arrived this morning — and the fine print is doing a lot of work. For years, cannabis advocates, industry operators, and policy watchers have dreamed of the day the federal government would mov…
The TCUP Math Problem: How a Busted Spreadsheet Rewrote the Medical Cannabis Map
There is a particular kind of regulatory failure that does not arrive with subpoenas or headlines. It slips in quietly, dressed up in spreadsheets and procedural language, hiding in a denominator that nobody bothers to question. It looks clean, professional, even defensible—right up until someone…
CROSSHAIRS OF HEMP MEDIA
A Strange Connection: Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, Alex Jones, and the Texas Hemp Industry By Russell Dowden Publisher, Blazed Magazine / Texas Hemp Reporter There are moments where media, law, and industry collide in ways that feel almost pre-written. For me—and for Judge Maya Guerra Gamble—those i…
A Texas District Court Just Hit Pause on Texas’ Hemp Crackdown
There are moments in a policy fight when the noise stops working—when all the bluster, press conferences, and scare tactics run headlong into a judge who doesn’t care about any of it and just asks one simple question: what does the law actually say? April 10 was that moment. What fo…
Ohio Tried to turn Hemp into Marijuana Fiat
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A new lawsuit alleges Ohio used definitional trickery, interstate discrimination, and possibly an invalid veto process to hand a lawful hemp market to in-state marijuana licensees. There are only so many ways a government can say, with a straight face, that it supports “regulation” while using th…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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