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The State of Texas Has Filed Its Final Brief in the THBC Rules Appeal

September 23, 2026 | Legislative

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…

TEXAS HEMP CONSTITUTIONAL ALLIANCE LAWSUIT

September 6, 2026 | Legislative

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

September 5, 2026 | Podcast

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

Federal Hemp Update

September 4, 2026 | Legislative

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…

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

August 12, 2026 | Business

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…

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

August 4, 2026 | News

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…

This Bud’s NOT for You

August 3, 2026 | Legislative

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…

The $23 Million Silence

July 16, 2026 | Business, CBD News & Business

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…

The Notice Nobody Was Supposed to Notice

July 13, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

Ken Paxton, affair Priority over Nations 250th Birth

July 5, 2026 | News

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…

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 significant consequ…

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

June 25, 2026 | 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…

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….. 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…

DEA’s June 29 Hearing Could Reshape the Future of Cannabis Capital Markets

May 29, 2026 | The Drug War

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…

The Arithmetic of Ambition

May 9, 2026 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

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…

FDA-Approved and State-Licensed Products Are Moved to Schedule III

April 24, 2026 | Legislative

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…

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