September 4, 2026 | Legislative Federal Hemp Update Federal hemp update — September 4: There is a meaningful new development in the post-delay negotiations. Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne says the White House is taking the hemp issue seriously now that the December 11 extension is law. She is pushing her proposal to keep hemp-derived THC beverages federa… Read Article
August 12, 2026 | Business MSO Post 2Q Gains with More Growth Setting Up for 2027 Second quarter MJ MSOs all reported strong revenue gains for the 2nd quarter(compared with 2025 quarter) running 4.6% to over 17%. with new states of Virginia, Texas and Georgia expecting to join store expansions in Ohio and Florida. More favorable borrowing terms, a lower IRS-280e over-taxatio… Read Article
August 4, 2026 | News Congress Hits the Brakes: Senate Gives Hemp Industry a Temporary Lifeline For the first time in months, the U.S. hemp industry has reason for cautious optimism. Just days after Texas enacted sweeping restrictions on hemp-derived THC products, lawmakers in Washington have signaled they may not be ready to pull the trigger on a nationwide federal ban. The U.S. Senate has i… Read Article
August 3, 2026 | Legislative This Bud’s NOT for You Sorry Texas: This Bud’s NOT for You How the Lone Star State Went From Hemp Leader to Hemp Prohibition For a brief moment, Texas stood at the forefront of the hemp revolution. When House Bill 1325 became law in 2019, thousands of entrepreneurs, farmers, manufacturers, distributors, and… Read Article
July 16, 2026 | Business, CBD News & Business The $23 Million Silence For thirteen years, Kevin Sabet has built a career on a single, endlessly serviceable exhortation: follow the money. Smart Approaches to Marijuana — the organization he co-founded with former Congressman Patrick Kennedy in Denver in January 2013, in the raw aftermath of Colorado’s legalization vote… Read Article
July 13, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News The Notice Nobody Was Supposed to Notice Friday, tucked between a scratch-ticket rulebook and a batch of wastewater fines in the back pages of the Texas Register, the Department of State Health Services quietly finished a fight it started five years ago. The notice — 51 TexReg 4597, filed June 25, signed out by DSHS General Counsel Cynthi… Read Article
July 5, 2026 | News Ken Paxton, affair Priority over Nations 250th Birth Ken Paxton Faces Fresh Scrutiny After Reported Iceland Trip During Heated Senate Campaign AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton is once again at the center of political controversy after reports and video surfaced showing him traveling to Icel… Read Article
June 26, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News DSHS to Enforce New Rules after THBC Motion for Rehearing 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 significant consequ… Read Article
June 25, 2026 | Health Smoke, Science, and Stigma: What 20 Years of Cannabis Research Really Says About Lung Health For generations, cannabis opponents leaned heavily on one of prohibition’s most familiar warnings: smoke enough marijuana, and your lungs would inevitably pay the price much like cigarettes. But one of the most significant long-term pulmonary studies ever conducted tells a far more nuanced story. P… Read Article
June 23, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News Did DSHS Just Tell the Hemp Industry to Ignore Its Own Rules Until After the Election? A motion for rehearing tells a strange story….. 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 Department of State Health Services have allegedly been telling licensed hemp busin… Read Article
May 29, 2026 | The Drug War DEA’s June 29 Hearing Could Reshape the Future of Cannabis Capital Markets DEA’s June 29 Hearing Could Reshape the Future of Cannabis Capital Market The cannabis industry is once again approaching a historic crossroads. On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will begin a new administrative hearing to determine whether marijuana should broadly mov… Read Article
May 9, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News The Arithmetic of Ambition When the Texas Department of Public Safety announced its corrected tabulation methodology for the Compassionate Use Program expansion on May 8, 2026—more than a month after the original awards—it did so with the bureaucratic understatement for which government agencies are justly famous. A “c… Read Article
April 24, 2026 | Legislative FDA-Approved and State-Licensed Products Are Moved to Schedule III 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 move marijuana off Schedule I — off the shelf it… Read Article
April 21, 2026 | CBD News & Business Kratom in Texas: Benefits, Booming Use At lower doses, kratom is often described as stimulating. At higher doses, it may promote calmness and relief, according to ongoing research referenced by federal health agencies. And what does science says so far? Actually, federal researchers, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA… Read Article
April 20, 2026 | Legislative 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 a… Read Article
April 8, 2026 | Hemp Ohio Tried to turn Hemp into Marijuana Fiat 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 the… Read Article
