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Representing Cannabis: Failed Insights from a Supposedly Pro-Cannabis U.S. House of Representatives Candidate

April 19, 2022 | Legislative

Running for office in a democratic nation is one means through which you can throw in your lot and take a shot at effectuating change. However, achieving success in such an endeavor often requires the exchanging of one’s ideals for cash and capital, as we explored in my previous article about lob…

Oklahoma Becomes Marijuana Legalization Battleground Between Advocates, With Legal Challenges And A New Ballot Initiative

April 8, 2022 | Legislative

The activist-led push to legalize marijuana in Oklahoma has become seriously contentious, with one campaign waging a legal challenge against a separate group of advocates working to end prohibition. The latest result of the conflict is the filing on Wednesday of a newly revised initiative to put …

Digital Preview: April Edition

March 28, 2022 | Magazines

The Spring Edition of the Texas Hemp Reporter profiles Texas Lab Testing that we recommend , a History of the 420 in pop-culture, The East Austin CBD Crawl, CBD & Pets, meet the new faces of the Texas Legislature. Will a “Changing of the Guard” improve cannabis law reform in the L…

NOCO Hemp Expo 8th Annual

March 19, 2022 | Events

Business Conference and Investment SummitMarch 24 Join us for the NoCo Hemp Expo Business Conference and Investment Summit — an exclusive one-day event featuring company founders and CEOs, industry leaders and experts, qualified and accredited investors, analysts, and financial professionals. At …

Medical Marijuana and Federal Prosecutions – A New Take on Protections for State Licensees

March 2, 2022 | Legislative

By: Ben Morrical, Brian Higgins, and Andrea Steel In late January, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued its opinion in United States v. Bilodeau, 2022 WL 225333 (1st Cir., Jan. 26, 2022), a case involving two marijuana growers from Maine who were indicted by the federal Departme…

THE GREAT DELTA-8 DEBATE

February 27, 2022 | CBD News & Business

This year has been a wild ride for hemp, and cannabis in general in Texas and it’s not going to stop for a single moment. Our 2021 year started off with a legislature that filed quite a few cannabis related bills in the House. Penalty reduction, medical cannabis, a hemp cleanup bill were the prim…

Vet the Farm, Don’t Bet the Farm!

February 18, 2022 | Agriculture

An Interview with Frank Schultz by Misty Contreras TPS Lab, a mainstay of the Rio Grande Valley and the farming industry for over eight decades, wants to help hemp and marijuana growers achieve success and higher yield of crops. TPS Lab President Frank Schultz explains the importance …

Flex Payment Solutions

February 14, 2022 | Texas Hemp Financing

With the nature of CBD and hemp being high risk products in the eyes of the financial world, finding stability and even options in merchant services has not always been an easy feat for retailers in the industry. Flex Payment Solutions offers a personal approach in their dedicated CBD merchant ac…

Hydroponics in the Heights

February 14, 2022 | Business

Houston Heights is home to Hydroshack Hydroponics – a full-service hydroponics retailer who prides themselves in the firsthand knowledge they have imparted to their customers over the last 10 years of business. Sprouting from a small hydroponics start up in the front office of their warehouse, Hy…

Meet JHeart CBD

February 14, 2022 | CBD

J Heart CBD is a woman-owned CBD franchise built out of passion and service from the heart of one Austin entrepreneur. Connie Hurley opened her first location in Cedar Park in August of 2019 after investing in the cannabis industry and discovering the growing market for CBD in Texas. She has sinc…

February Edition Now Available

January 25, 2022 | News

The new edition of the Texas Hemp Reporter is available in Austin and Houston area smoke shops this week for free . . many growers and producers will also receive them by mail as well. This February we honor Jack Herer as his brand of genetics makes its way to Texas via the Texas A […]

CBD & Hemp Banking Programs

December 30, 2021 | Banking News

While the legalization and participation in the hemp industry is growing in the US, the lack of banking support with funding these businesses remain a national issue. Herring Bank is making strides right here in Texas to change that narrative with their CBD & Hemp Banking Program. Herring Ban…

Red, White and Green. Is Texas Playing it safe?

December 30, 2021 | News

The State of Recreational Cannabis (Is Texas Playing It Safe? Or Just Missing Out?) The fact that the Lonestar state is still vehemently anti-cannabis (at least in legislation at the state level) despite being surrounded by a sea of green is a true testament to the independent Texas spirit. It se…

Dan Herer Podcast #63

December 2, 2021 | Podcast

Dan Herer grew up watching his father’s activism but it wasn’t until his father’s death that he decided to enter the business. He is the founder of the Jack Herer Foundation and Herer Group, where he is conducting research, developing products and producing cannabis. Herer Group is a corporate um…

How to Pitch Pot to Conservatives (For Starters, Call it “Cannabis”)

November 9, 2021 | Business

Grassroots and Hemp Seeds: How Traditional Political Action Has Failed TX Cannabis With the 87th Texas legislature having come and gone without any particularly exciting progress on cannabis, it is clear that efforts on selling the conservative voting bloc on legalizing it have not been as fruitf…

CBD Crawl: South Austin

November 2, 2021 | CBD

South Austin is known for its food trucks and funky vibe, tight-knit retail communities and lack of parking, and yeah, we’re the meat eaters. But a new wave has hit South Austin, and Austin as a whole: CBD dispensaries. Texas is still anxiously awaiting legalization. As of Sept …

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