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Study: Most Daily Cannabis Consumers Don’t Meet Criteria for “Moderate” or “Severe” Cannabis Use Disorder

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Orono, ME: Few heavy, daily users of cannabis meet the diagnostic criteria for either “moderate” or “severe” cannabis use disorder (CUD), and many don’t meet any criteria for CUD, according to data published in the Journal of Addiction Medicine. A team of investigators affiliated with the Universit…
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What’s Really in Your Hemp-Derived THC Product?

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By Michael A. Davis   A hemp-derived THC gummy may look like an ordinary packaged snack, with a product name, a list of ingredients, and a label describing how much THC it contains. For the person buying it, the package may be the main source of information about what they are consuming. But l…
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Will Texas DPS Eat Crow(e) Again?

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TCUP expansion creates scarcity where abundance already supplies Texans with high quality  THC products. So who benefits from deliberately collapsing that industry so as to feed the rent-seeking oligopolies. How un-Texan. DPS replaced a prohibition on cannabis-industry relationships with a disclosu…
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Texas Doesn’t Need a Hemp Ban. It Needs a Rulebook.

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Texas has legitimate reasons to regulate hemp-derived cannabinoid products, particularly those containing intoxicating compounds that may be mistaken for ordinary candy, beverages, or other everyday products.
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The State of Texas Has Filed Its Final Brief in the THBC Rules Appeal

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The Fifteenth Court now must decide whether DSHS adopted a testing method or rewrote the law the Legislature passed. S. Jay “MadDawgg” Maguire The State of Texas filed its reply brief on September 17 in the appeal over the Department of State Health Services’ new consumable-hemp r…
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TEXAS HEMP CONSTITUTIONAL ALLIANCE LAWSUIT

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THC Alliance Lawsuit Summary   The Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance amended lawsuit challenges several new hemp rules adopted by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). This lawsuit is not primarily about hemp. According to the lawsuit, it is about whether a state agency can ch…
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Interns Wanted

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Texas Hemp Reporter is seeking spring/summer interns to join the team from January 15 – June 20, 2025. 
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Federal Hemp Update

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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…
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MSO Post 2Q Gains with More Growth Setting Up for 2027

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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…
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Congress Hits the Brakes: Senate Gives Hemp Industry a Temporary Lifeline

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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…
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This Bud’s NOT for You

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  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…
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The $23 Million Silence

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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…
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The Notice Nobody Was Supposed to Notice

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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…
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Ken Paxton, affair Priority over Nations 250th Birth

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  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…
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DSHS to Enforce New Rules after THBC Motion for Rehearing

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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…
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Smoke, Science, and Stigma: What 20 Years of Cannabis Research Really Says About Lung Health

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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…
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Blazedfest 2026

Blazed Weekly News October 8, 2026 4:48 pm

Dylan and Albert join Blazed Weekly News this week to discuss their one year anniversary at ATX dispensary! Albert opened the store to heal and help his fellow Texans, after a car wreck 7 years ago...Albertf found relief from pharmaceutical drugs and heavy med. Once he tried CBD and cannabinoids his symptoms improved and found peace. Like so many others that benefit from Cannabis they enjoy offering it to us their community and elderly and their veterans to help heal the body mind and soul. Russell also reads from some legislative news and talks about political change here in the Lone Star State. Visit Albert & Dylan and little Chewey https://www.atxdispensaryllc.com/ Don't miss BlazedFest at Shiner Saloon Rooftop October 14th. Champs After Party. Blazed Magazine www.BlazedNews.com

Dylan and Albert join Blazed Weekly News this week to discuss their one year anniversary at ATX dispensary!

Albert opened the store to heal and help his fellow Texans, after a car wreck 7 years ago…Albertf found relief from pharmaceutical drugs and heavy med. Once he tried CBD and cannabinoids his symptoms improved and found peace.


Like so many others that benefit from Cannabis they enjoy offering it to us their community and elderly and their veterans to help heal the body mind and soul. Russell also reads from some legislative news and talks about political change here in the Lone Star State.


Visit Albert & Dylan and little Chewey
https://www.atxdispensaryllc.com/


Don't miss BlazedFest at Shiner Saloon Rooftop October 14th.
Champs After Party.

Blazed Magazine
www.BlazedNews.com

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ATX Dispensary | Lawsuit Updates | Health Choices

Blazed Weekly News October 1, 2026 10:26 pm

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September 18, 2026

Blazed Weekly News September 18, 2026 12:36 am

Upcoming lawsuit from this week's plaintiff and attorney introduced both Austin Hubbard of the Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance and his legal Council Roger Borgelt. The case argues the constitutional merit and the authority of DSHS and its rule making powers. The upcoming lawsuit argues that the state agency cannot make laws or change HB 1325 the case is coming up in the few weeks and may have Major Impact since this is about Texas constitutional law and the authority given to its agencies. This is a great show if you're a retailer or industry manufacturer or producer or concerned consumer of the Texas amp industry. Please comment below. www.jointhca.org www.BorgeltLaw.com Visit our site. www.BlazedNews.com Www.texashempreporter.com

Upcoming lawsuit from this week's plaintiff and attorney introduced both Austin Hubbard of the Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance and his legal Council Roger Borgelt.

The case argues the constitutional merit and the authority of DSHS and its rule making powers. The upcoming lawsuit argues that the state agency cannot make laws or change HB 1325 the case is coming up in the few weeks and may have Major Impact since this is about Texas constitutional law and the authority given to its agencies.

This is a great show if you're a retailer or industry manufacturer or producer or concerned consumer of the Texas amp industry.

Please comment below.


www.jointhca.org
www.BorgeltLaw.com


Visit our site.
www.BlazedNews.com
Www.texashempreporter.com

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Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance Lawsuit

Blazed Weekly News September 10, 2026 11:14 pm

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