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

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

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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…
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The Arithmetic of Ambition

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

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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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Kratom in Texas: Benefits, Booming Use

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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…
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The TCUP Math Problem: How a Busted Spreadsheet Rewrote the Medical Cannabis Map

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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…
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Ohio Tried to turn Hemp into Marijuana Fiat

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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…
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Washington’s Two-Handed Approach to Hemp

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Medicare just became the nation’s first large-scale, reliable buyer of hemp — provided you are old enough, sick enough, and compliant enough to qualify. Everyone else — the twenty-something vaping a delta-8 cart in Austin, the Hill Country soccer mom with a bag of sleep gummies — is staring down a…
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The Texas Hemp Regulatory Clampdown

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Why the New DSHS Rules Demand Immediate Legal Challenge   The Department of State Health Services has finalized sweeping amendments to 25 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 300, the regulatory framework governing the manufacture, distribution, and retail sale of consumable hemp products in Texa…
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Today on the Texas Hemp Show we visit with Jay lMaguire of Maguire strategies to discuss the current rule changes and new enforceable laws for the Delta 8 case. More products will now be removed on from the shelves of products beginning with July 31st or tonight at midnight as the time of recording. Show discusses possibilities and strategies with five lawsuits that are pending against the Department of Human Health Services. The panel also discussed pending legislation and how to reach out to your Senators here in Texas and let them know your opinions on the federal hemp Ban November 12th. www.BlazedNews.com www.texashempreporter.com Russell Dowden Rachel Nelson Jay Maguire Jonathon Parker

Today on the Texas Hemp Show we visit with Jay lMaguire of Maguire strategies to discuss the current rule changes and new enforceable laws for the Delta 8 case.

More products will now be removed on from the shelves of products beginning with July 31st or tonight at midnight as the time of recording.

Show discusses possibilities and strategies with five lawsuits that are pending against the Department of Human Health Services. The panel also discussed pending legislation and how to reach out to your Senators here in Texas and let them know your opinions on the federal hemp Ban November 12th.

www.BlazedNews.com
www.texashempreporter.com

Russell Dowden
Rachel Nelson
Jay Maguire
Jonathon Parker

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THC BAN, Delta 8 – 9 | July 31st

Blazed Weekly News July 30, 2026 11:29 pm

Talking Points this week Blazed Weekly News - 90th SESSION LEGISLATURE - POWER GRAB by STATE AGENCY - conflicting rules and legal decisions - beverage only support - DSHS and sunset committee - federal regulation - marijuana rescheduling - CARVE OUT FOR FLOWER AT DPS - NEW AGENCY TEXAS HEMP & CANNABIS BUREAU

Talking Points this week Blazed Weekly News

– 90th SESSION LEGISLATURE
– POWER GRAB by STATE AGENCY
– conflicting rules and legal decisions
– beverage only support
– DSHS and sunset committee
– federal regulation
– marijuana rescheduling
– CARVE OUT FOR FLOWER AT DPS
– NEW AGENCY TEXAS HEMP & CANNABIS BUREAU

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Podcast # 268 – Hemp Policy in Texas & The Future of Cannabis

Blazed Weekly News July 17, 2026 8:13 am

David Sergi talks with Russell and Rachel about the 15 th Circuit Court of Appeals case is still pending while the recent Senator Perry hearing made a laughing stock of his dog and pony show. Meanwhile positive change in the reschedule conversation and discussion for a hemp bill in Washington. www.BlazedNews.com www.texashempreporter.com

David Sergi talks with Russell and Rachel about the 15 th Circuit Court of Appeals case is still pending while the recent Senator Perry hearing made a laughing stock of his dog and pony show.

Meanwhile positive change in the reschedule conversation and discussion for a hemp bill in Washington.

www.BlazedNews.com

www.texashempreporter.com

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UPDATE FLOWER, DSHS, SENATE HEARING

Blazed Weekly News July 10, 2026 12:09 am

Currently seeking Beverages and Brands to participate in the annual THC Beverage of the Year Challenge. Simply submit your beverage and place a display ad in the August edition of Blaze magazine and our judge panel will vote on 10 different beverages and announce winners in time for Champs trade show in Austin Texas this September. www.BlazedNews.com/thc-challenge

Currently seeking Beverages and Brands to participate in the annual THC Beverage of the Year Challenge. Simply submit your beverage and place a display ad in the August edition of Blaze magazine and our judge panel will vote on 10 different beverages and announce winners in time for Champs trade show in Austin Texas this September.


www.BlazedNews.com/thc-challenge

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BEVERAGE OF THE YEAR CHALLENGE

Blazed Weekly News July 2, 2026 11:12 am

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