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Flex Payment Solutions
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 acco…

Hydroponics in the Heights
| 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, Hydr…

Meet JHeart CBD
| 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 since…

February Edition Now Available
| 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
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 Bank…

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

Dan Herer Podcast #63
| 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 umbr…

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

CBD Crawl: South Austin
| 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 1…

The Story of Raw Papers
| Business
As a child Josh Kesselman would watch his father’s trick- lighting a rolling paper on fire throwing it in the air and POOF! It would vanish. Josh became obsessed with rolling papers and amassed a large collection as a hobby. In college during the 90’s he researched a class project of the aspects of…

Episode 59: Lisa Pittman of Zuber Lawler
| Podcast
Joining us here on The Texas Hemp Show podcast number 59 again is Lisa Pitman from Zuber Lawler Attorneys. And Ms. Pitman is a pioneering figure in the emerging legalized hemp cannabis industry here in Texas, and Ms. Pitman is an appointee to the Texas Department of Agricultural Industrial Hemp Adv…

JACK AND THE HEMPSTALK
NYC 2021 While writing Hemp for Victory, I was presented with stories about hemp growing 30′ tall. However, there is scant, if any, record of this. Not that it isn’t true, or entirely lacking witness thereof. One account of super tall hemp that I found was in a German language pamp…

MJ Unpacked
| Events
Post Event Stats MJ Unpacked debuted October 21 & 22nd at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Event data The event hosted 2545 total delegates. 1054 retailers/verticals 504 brands, manufacturers, processors, cultivators 105 distributors/delivery services 426 accredited investors Last Prisoner P…


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