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DSHS to Enforce New Rules after THBC Motion for Rehearing

June 26, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

Texas Begins Enforcing New Total THC Rule: What the DSHS Crackdown Means for Hemp Retailers The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has begun actively enforcing new Consumable Hemp Program rules that dramatically change how THC is measured in hemp products, creating significan…

Did DSHS Just Tell the Hemp Industry to Ignore Its Own Rules Until After the Election?

June 23, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

A motion for rehearing tells a strange story. Did DSHS Just Tell the Hemp Industry to Ignore Its Own Rules Until After the Election? There are moments in public policy when the mask slips. According to a motion filed Sunday in the Fifteenth Court of Appeals, representatives of the Texas Departmen…

State Appeals Texas Hemp Injunction

May 6, 2026 | Cannabis News, Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

Lawsuit to Decide Future of Texas Hemp

April 7, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

Shipping THCA Flower to Texas: What Vendors Need to Know

March 19, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

The Lawsuit That Changes the Kratom Debate

February 10, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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, …

What the Supreme Court Is Really Testing in Sky Marketing

January 16, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

Hemp, Dirty DSHS, and the Limits of Getting Cute

January 9, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

Trump’s Schedule III play

December 16, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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 …

Big Marijuana’s Texas Play:

December 9, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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 …

Compassionate Use Program: 9 New Licensee

December 6, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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 …

Big Marijuana’s Next Target: Texas Compassionate Use Program

November 18, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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, …

Texas Hemp’s Turning Point: From Panic to Partnership

October 8, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

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

September 18, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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, …

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

September 10, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

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

August 6, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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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