July 29, 2025 | Legislative Twin Bills, One Goal: Sweeping Hemp Crackdown Why HB 5 Mirrors SB 5. A second shoe has dropped in the Texas Legislature, and it has the same number as the first. House Bill 5, filed by Rep. Gary Van Deaver during the first called session of the 89th Legislature, is a word-for-word duplicate of Senate Bill 5 by Sen. Charles Perry. [&he… Read Article
July 22, 2025 | Legislative Statement by the Texas Hemp Business Council on SB 5 AUSTIN, Texas, July 22, 2025 – The Texas Hemp Business Council (THBC) today issued the following statement regarding the introduction of SB 5 during a special session of the 89th Texas Legislature: “Some Texas lawmakers are once again ignoring the facts, the public and the governor. “Despite Gove… Read Article
July 21, 2025 | Cannabis News Few Americans Support Prohibition of Marijuana Eight-seven percent of Americans say that marijuana ought to be legal for either medical or adult use, according to nationwide polling compiled by the Pew Research Center. The results are consistent with those of prior Pew polls finding that only about ten percent of US adults support a blanket p… Read Article
July 21, 2025 | News Hemp Ban Possibly on Senate Floor this Week. Congress is moving quickly to redefine hemp in such a way that nearly all consumable products will be banned.Senators are expected to vote THIS week on the appropriations package that includes this language. We have successfully defeated these types of attacks on our lawful, federally regulated i… Read Article
June 23, 2025 | Legislative Governor Abbott Vetoes SB 3, Preserving Texas Hemp Industry—for Now In a major political reversal that stunned both advocates and opponents of cannabis reform, Governor Greg Abbott has vetoed Senate Bill 3, the controversial measure that would have effectively banned nearly all hemp-derived THC products in Texas. The bill—championed by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and pa… Read Article
June 22, 2025 | News Texas Governor Veto’s HEMP BAN SB3 People from every corner of the industry—consumers of our products, allies, enemies, friends, and frienemies alike—have been blowing up my phone and sliding into my DMs for the past 36 hours. The question on everyone’s mind: *What’s Abbott going to do about SB 3?* Well, I’ve been ar… Read Article
June 21, 2025 | News BREAKING: Gov. Abbott Signs TCUP Expansion as Clock Ticks on THC Ban Decision June 21, 2025 — In a headline-grabbing move that belies the deeper political drama beneath it, Governor Greg Abbott today signed House Bill 46 into law, enacting the most significant expansion of the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP) since its inception. The new law allows physicians to reco… Read Article
June 19, 2025 | News Dan Patrick and the shadow war on cannabis: A case for official oppression? In the corridors of the Texas Capitol, where influence is currency and access determines outcome, one man’s fingerprints are all over the battle to decide the future of THC in Texas: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. While Governor Greg Abbott weighs Senate Bill 3—a sweeping ban on hemp-derived TH… Read Article
June 17, 2025 | Legislative Texans Forced to Choose Between Pain or Firearms It’s not a hypothetical. It’s not a loophole. It’s the law—and it’s targeting some of the most vulnerable Texans. Every patient in the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), our state’s limited medical marijuana registry, is already in legal jeopardy under federal law. The moment a Texan with PT… Read Article
June 16, 2025 | Legislative Why Governor Abbott Must Veto SB 3 Dan Patrick crusade against the Texas Hemp Industry is hurting Texans and Why Governor Abbott Must Veto SB3! Read Article
June 11, 2025 | News Dan Patrick’s THC Ban Doesn’t Reflect the Will of Texas Voters—Even Republican Ones Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has made banning hemp-derived THC products a top priority this session, even threatening a special session if the House refused to advance the measure. Senate Bill 3, which passed the House after heavy procedural pressure, would effectively shut down Texas’ entire … Read Article
June 2, 2025 | Legislative Dan Patrick’s Political Theater Dan Patrick’s Political Theater Has Real Victims—and Texans Are Paying the Price. SB 2024: The Vape Bait-and-Switch Sold as a defense against youth vaping, SB 2024 instead criminalizes flavored disposable vape products made in China or not FDA-authorized—effectively banning almost a… Read Article
May 21, 2025 | Lab Testing, News Bad Science, Political Raids, and the Setup Behind SB 3 WARNING: THE REPORT DAN PATRICK DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE! In Texas, we’ve seen this before: a political agenda dressed up as public safety, a compliant bureaucracy, and the weaponization of bad science to justify bad law. But this time, it’s not marijuana. It’s legal hemp—and the state’s ow… Read Article
May 19, 2025 | Lab Testing The Truth About Hemp Lab Testing in Texas A Call for Honesty, Not Hysteria By Nicholas Mortillaro, and Jay Maguire Co-Founders, CRAFT (Cannabis Retailers Alliance for Texas) In recent months, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Senator Charles Perry have repeatedly pointed to a series of lab tests as justification for banning hemp-deriv… Read Article
May 15, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News “Bad Science, Bogus Raids, and Bad Bills: Over the past year, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has made no secret of his disdain for the legal hemp industry in Texas. He’s called it the “backdoor to marijuana legalization” and accused retailers of “selling drugs to kids” under the guise of legality. At a February 2024 press con… Read Article
May 14, 2025 | Legislative OPEN LETTER TO STOP SB 3 & CSSB 3 OPEN LETTER TO STOP SB 3 & CSSB 3 I’m an adult who uses legal hemp products. These bills would ban the very products I rely on for my well-being. I choose not to enroll in the Texas Compassionate Use Program because it’s restrictive, costly, and inconvenient— it’s a state-sanctioned monopoly … Read Article
