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Kratom in Texas: Benefits, Booming Use & Regulation

April 21, 2026 | CBD News & Business

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…

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

April 20, 2026 | Legislative

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…

Ohio Tried to turn Hemp into Marijuana Fiat

April 8, 2026 | Hemp

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…

Washington’s Two-Handed Approach to Hemp

April 7, 2026 | Health

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…

The Texas Hemp Regulatory Clampdown

March 27, 2026 | CBD News & Business

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…

Shipping THCA Flower to Texas: What Vendors Need to Know

March 27, 2026 | News

While out-of-state vendors are not directly bound by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) retail ban, ordering THCA flower into Texas after March 31, 2026, carries significant legal and practical risks. Retail Ban Scope: The new DSHS rules specifically prohibit the manufacture, dist…

Alcohol Industry Pushes Back: Regulate Hemp Drinks, Don’t Ban Them

March 27, 2026 | Legislative

As lawmakers move closer to cracking down on hemp-derived THC products, the alcohol industry is stepping into the fight—and surprisingly, they’re not calling for prohibition. Instead, a major alcohol trade group is urging Congress to regulate hemp THC beverages rather than ban them outright, arguin…

AFROMAN BEATS THE COPS IN COURT

March 27, 2026 | Cannabis News

Rapper turns police raid into music… and wins on free speech Afroman just proved something loud and clear: You can turn a police raid into a hit song — and win in court. The rapper, best known for “Because I Got High,” came out victorious in a defamation lawsuit filed by seven Ohio sheriff’s…

Meanwhile Back in the Land of the Living

November 2, 2025 | CBD News & Business

As ghosts haunted the Texas Capitol this Halloween, a very mortal figure in Washington—Senator Mitch McConnell—quietly made a move that sent a shiver of relief through America’s hemp industry. In a letter released late Thursday, McConnell agreed to remove the restrictive hemp language…

HB 256 and the Criminalization of Youth

August 6, 2025 | Legislative

In what feels like a legislative magic trick gone wrong—now you see them, now you don’t!—the Texas Legislature is once again trying to regulate the hemp industry… while simultaneously not having enough members in the building to legally do anything at all. And yet, two wildly different bills have s…

Texas House Democrats Break Quorum, Stalling THC Ban Bills

August 5, 2025 | Texas Legal & Regulatory News

The Walkout & Political Context In early August 2025, over 50 Democratic members of the Texas House left the state—relocating to places like Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts—to deny Republicans the two‑thirds quorum needed to conduct legislative business. Their stated goal: block a propose…

Twin Bills, One Goal: Sweeping Hemp Crackdown

July 29, 2025 | Legislative

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. [&hell…

Statement by the Texas Hemp Business Council on SB 5

July 22, 2025 | Legislative

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 Govern…

Few Americans Support Prohibition of Marijuana

July 21, 2025 | Cannabis News

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 pol…

Hemp Ban Possibly on Senate Floor this Week.

July 21, 2025 | News

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 ind…

Governor Abbott Vetoes SB 3, Preserving Texas Hemp Industry—for Now

June 23, 2025 | Legislative

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 pass…

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