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A Political Analysis of DSHS Announcement

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The continued use of emergency rule renewals, rather than adoption of final rules, is not accidental and it is not merely procedural housekeeping. It reflects a deliberate choice by the agency to avoid locking itself into a permanent regulatory position while legal, political, and policy variable…

The Lawsuit That Changes the Kratom Debate

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For years, kratom existed in a regulatory gray zone—debated, periodically regulated, but rarely confronted through full-scale state enforcement. That equilibrium broke on February 6, 2026, when the Texas Attorney General filed suit in Ellis County seeking an ex parte temporary restraining order, …

Texas Lawmakers Shift Gear on Hemp THC — Regulation, Not a Ban, Now Likely in 2027

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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…

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…

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…

High Times’ Josh Kesselman Calls B.S. on Big Alcohol’s Anti-Weed Panic

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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…

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…

Come Get Baked & Blazed with Blazed Magazine • Free Spring Show

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Blazed Magazine is offering Booth Space at our Spring Show at Shiner Saloon Saturday March 14th 2026  • Celebrate the Plant this Spring with Blazed Magazine Shiner Saloon invited us back to the “Rooftop” for an UN-Official FREE SXSW Show ! Live Music with Backseat Soundtrack • Daddy S…

Mystery “Enforcement” Notices Appear at Austin Smoke Shops

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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 [&…

Blazed Texas Flower Challenge

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  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…

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…

Spielberg & Disclosure Day

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  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…

Trump’s Schedule III play

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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 …

Alex Jones: Austin’s Public-Access Alchemist Who Turned Paranoia into a Media Empire

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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…

Case Closed: Do We Finally Have Answers to the Decades-long Yogurt Shop Murders Mystery?

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A community breathes a sigh of relief as a decades-long cold case is solved.

The National Cannabis Violations Texas Cannot Ignore

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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 …

The 420 Times

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Anyone new to a medical cannabis dispensary quickly discovers that […]

– Shane Dwyer

A five-location multi-state operator and a single dispensary’s in-house cultivator […]

– Shane Dwyer

The legal cannabis market is growing fast, and online sales […]

Cannabis Feed • Google News

Millions of Americans Use Cannabis to Help Them Sleep. It […]

Laws to be strengthened for medicinal cannabis in Jersey  BBC […]

Why Poughkeepsie cannabis dispensary Black Market has been suspended  The Poughkeepsie […]

Beyond the Podium: GOP attorney general candidate Gordon noted for […]

Marijuana Report

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Weed New Users Guide Weed vs booze This guide assumes you […]

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So I rolled a nice one, finished an episode of supernatural. […]

Hail Mary Jane

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Cannabis Industry Journal

– Pam Chmiel

CEO Micah Anderson discusses the economics of cannabis cultivation, lessons […]

– Pam Chmiel

Purchase history tells dispensaries what customers buy, but understanding how […]

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Nearly 145,000 lab samples reveal how far regulated cannabis flower […]

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How state regulators plan to root out THC inflation and […]

– Pam Chmiel

On one side is the DEA, where the administrative law […]

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