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Veterans Scientific Laboratories: Setting a new standard in Hemp Testing?

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It is getting about that time in Texas as we are weeks away (by the time this article is published) for farmers to begin harvesting their hemp crops. With that, Texas and Federal Law dictate that all hemp production be tested for THC limits as well as other things such as pesticides and harmful pro…

Profiles in Hemp Farming: Robot Pharmer

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By Misty Contreras Texas Hemp Reporter: When did you begin farming? Robot Pharmer: We began farming in September of 2018, immediately after our licenses were granted. The founders are Jeff Ely, Isaac Ramirez, Josh Wheat and Brandt Hamilton. THR:Where are you located? RP: Our farm and extraction lab…

Did the DEA’s new rule confirm hemp-derived Delta-8 THC is illegal?

By: Andrea Steel and Lisa Pittman On August 21, 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration (the “DEA”) published a rule regarding the scheduling of hemp and marijuana, effective immediately (the “Rule”). The cannabis community swiftly reacted with an interpretation that this Rule outlawed Delta-8 TH…

The Inside Story of How Wild Hemp® Won the Smokeable Hemp Ban Lawsuit

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The Inside Story of How Wild Hemp® Won the Smoekable Hemp Ban Lawsuit On August 23rd, 2021, smokable hemp products officially became legal to manufacture and sell in Texas. Many never noticed since the smokable hemp ban hadn’t been put into enforcement yet. Nevertheless, an invisible battle brewed…

Meet the Texas Cannabis Collective

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One Texas cannabis activism group has amassed quite a following in their state and has even caught the attention of national players. As the Deputy Director of the Texas Cannabis Collective, what exactly is the TCC is a question people have been asking me recently. The easy answer is that it is a p…

TX Hemp Reporter blooming Circulation in Texas, Expanding to Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

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The Texas Hemp Reporter this November will be blooming itself across the Lone Star State in time for Harvest Season. With the recent expansion of Houston Texas market to receive the September edition, the Austin TX based Cannabis publication is headed north and south this November adding in two mor…

Episode 55: Cheech Marin

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Cheech talks with Russell and Jesse about his CBD brand “Cheech’s Stash” and what projects he has been involved in this year.

Profiles in Hemp Farming

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Eddie Velez, Oak Cliff Cultivators Oakcliffcultivators.com  Texas Hemp Reporter: Where are you located? Eddie Velez: Our hemp farm is centrally located in Brady, the heart of Texas. THR: When did you begin farming? Eddie: I’m not your typical farmer and I had no farming experience until recent…

Texas Medical Marijuana Doctors

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Lamont Ratcliff and his team are leading the pack in implementing the recent changes of the Texas Compassionate Use Program through a different segment of his practice at Houston area Wellness Pain & Associates clinics. The Texas Medical Marijuana Doctors was birthed 4 years ago out of a desire…

Hemp Paper in the USA: Part 2

Ken Gibson Hemp has been used for paper for some 2,000 years, the use of wood pulp is a new concept that has been causing economic and environmental chaos. At the time of this writing paper in the US is shipped in from southeast Asia, incurring transport costs and adding to the loss of fo…

TO Be Blunt

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The moment I went from being a cannabis consumer to a cannabis brand owner, everything shifted. It’s like picking the red pill vs the blue pill, pick the blue pill and you can stay unaffected, unaware, and in contented ignorance. But pick the red pill and you are in for a truthfully rude but reward…

Podcast to Broadcast: Texas Hemp Show

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The Texas Hemp Show is moving from podcast to broadcast on Austin’s News Radio KLBJ. Russell Dowden, the show’s host and editor of Texas Hemp Reporter Magazine, teamed up with Dennis Carter to bring the idea to life on Austin’s longest running station to educate Central Texans on all of the up to d…

Naturally Hemps: Austin TX

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The conversation on Delta 8 has been a continuous hot topic in the state of Texas with many already invested in the hemp-derived product pushing for regulation over prohibition in the vested interest of their companies, the industry and the responsible consumer. Darrell Suriff of Naturally Hemps di…

Ricky Ross & Kevin Booth: The Drug War

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Some days, you sit back and realize how all of your hard work has paid off.  Some days, you may have the privilege of talking shop with a man whose work you’ve admired for over 20 years.  I had the pleasure of interviewing these two men, and then the very next day, Mr. Tommy Chong. …

Happy Karma Hemp

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Texas Hemp Reporter: Who is Happy Karma Hemp?  Can you tell us a bit of your origin story? Laran Snyder:  I started my business to be unique and different and to really help others, but also from a completely non-business like standpoint, my degree is in opera and while I was getting my d…

Rodkey’s Health & Wellness:

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Rodkey’s Health & Wellness, San Antonio, Tx, I rodkeys.com Charles Rodkey Jr. is a true pioneer in the CBD retail and manufacturing space.  A self-proclaimed plant science savant, Charles had already spent years researching and studying cannabis when he left a successful 20-plus year career in…

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South African hemp growers get new seed program as province seeks commercial markets

South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province has launched a hemp seed production […]

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Two French hemp projects aim to expand fiber processing for textiles and construction

Two hemp processing initiatives moving forward in southwestern France illustrate […]

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State lawmaker in U.S. accused of running $4.5 million in marijuana through hemp shops

A Virginia state senator who operates businesses selling hemp and […]

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A California appellate court last week ruled that some felony […]

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A new lawsuit has been filed to overturn Texas’ smokable […]

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Workers at the Greenlight Marijuana Dispensary in Joplin, Missouri, voted […]