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2025 GUMMY Challenge –

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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….
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Geremy Greens: Harvest Is Over—Now What?

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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…
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Compassionate Use Program: 9 New Licensee

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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 …
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The Age of Disclosure: Film Review

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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…
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Big Marijuana’s Next Target: Texas Compassionate Use Program

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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, …
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Hemp Held Hostage: Washington Shutdown Threatens America’s $30 Billion Industry

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    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…
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Texas Hemp’s Turning Point: From Panic to Partnership

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  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…
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Texas Slams the Brakes: TABC Emergency Rule Raises Hemp Age Limit to 21

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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…
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Rand Paul Warns of Looming Federal Hemp Ban Amid THC Debate

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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….
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Texas Hemp Shops Raided on Junk Science, Judge Refuses to Step In

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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, …
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Texas Governor Abbott Sidesteps Legislature with Executive Order on Hemp

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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…
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Abbott’s GA-56: Age Gates by Fiat, Testing by Rule—And the Legal Holes in Between

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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…
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Governor Gregg Abbott to act on THC

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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…
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Texas THC Challenge: Beverage – 2025

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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 …
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Federal Marijuana Enforcement Just Turned a 180

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  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…
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Explainer: Why Governor Abbott Is Asking the Texas Supreme Court to Remove Rep. Gene Wu from Office

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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…
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RT

Is Hungary about to give Ukraine the EU green light?
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Is Hungary about to give Ukraine the EU green light?

Peter Magyar could lift Budapest’s veto on Ukrainian accession to […]

Czech court orders fugitive trans neo-Nazi to be sent back…
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Czech court orders fugitive trans neo-Nazi to be sent back to Germany

Marla-Svenja Liebich was convicted of multiple offenses in Germany, prompting […]

Zakharova slams Western media for ignoring Starobelsk massacre
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Zakharova slams Western media for ignoring Starobelsk massacre

The Western media’s refusal to report a Ukrainian drone attack […]

Cannabis Industry Journal

Hemp Beverage Expo 2026: Get in the Room Where the…
– Pam Chmiel

Austin is the place to be this June. The post […]

What the Wholesale Numbers Tell Us About Where Cannabis Markets…
– Pam Chmiel

The national trend is down. Your market may disagree. The […]

The Post-280E Opportunity: Turning Cannabis Risk Into an Asset
– Pam Chmiel

A captive insurance company allows an operator to turn that […]

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