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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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Shipping THCA Flower to Texas: What Vendors Need to Know

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

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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…
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AFROMAN BEATS THE COPS IN COURT

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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…
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Meanwhile Back in the Land of the Living

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  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…
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HB 256 and the Criminalization of Youth

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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…
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Texas House Democrats Break Quorum, Stalling THC Ban Bills

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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…
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Twin Bills, One Goal: Sweeping Hemp Crackdown

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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…
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Blazedfest 2026

Blazed Weekly News October 8, 2026 4:48 pm

Dylan and Albert join Blazed Weekly News this week to discuss their one year anniversary at ATX dispensary! Albert opened the store to heal and help his fellow Texans, after a car wreck 7 years ago...Albertf found relief from pharmaceutical drugs and heavy med. Once he tried CBD and cannabinoids his symptoms improved and found peace. Like so many others that benefit from Cannabis they enjoy offering it to us their community and elderly and their veterans to help heal the body mind and soul. Russell also reads from some legislative news and talks about political change here in the Lone Star State. Visit Albert & Dylan and little Chewey https://www.atxdispensaryllc.com/ Don't miss BlazedFest at Shiner Saloon Rooftop October 14th. Champs After Party. Blazed Magazine www.BlazedNews.com

Dylan and Albert join Blazed Weekly News this week to discuss their one year anniversary at ATX dispensary!

Albert opened the store to heal and help his fellow Texans, after a car wreck 7 years ago…Albertf found relief from pharmaceutical drugs and heavy med. Once he tried CBD and cannabinoids his symptoms improved and found peace.


Like so many others that benefit from Cannabis they enjoy offering it to us their community and elderly and their veterans to help heal the body mind and soul. Russell also reads from some legislative news and talks about political change here in the Lone Star State.


Visit Albert & Dylan and little Chewey
https://www.atxdispensaryllc.com/


Don't miss BlazedFest at Shiner Saloon Rooftop October 14th.
Champs After Party.

Blazed Magazine
www.BlazedNews.com

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ATX Dispensary | Lawsuit Updates | Health Choices

Blazed Weekly News October 1, 2026 10:26 pm

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September 18, 2026

Blazed Weekly News September 18, 2026 12:36 am

Upcoming lawsuit from this week's plaintiff and attorney introduced both Austin Hubbard of the Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance and his legal Council Roger Borgelt. The case argues the constitutional merit and the authority of DSHS and its rule making powers. The upcoming lawsuit argues that the state agency cannot make laws or change HB 1325 the case is coming up in the few weeks and may have Major Impact since this is about Texas constitutional law and the authority given to its agencies. This is a great show if you're a retailer or industry manufacturer or producer or concerned consumer of the Texas amp industry. Please comment below. www.jointhca.org www.BorgeltLaw.com Visit our site. www.BlazedNews.com Www.texashempreporter.com

Upcoming lawsuit from this week's plaintiff and attorney introduced both Austin Hubbard of the Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance and his legal Council Roger Borgelt.

The case argues the constitutional merit and the authority of DSHS and its rule making powers. The upcoming lawsuit argues that the state agency cannot make laws or change HB 1325 the case is coming up in the few weeks and may have Major Impact since this is about Texas constitutional law and the authority given to its agencies.

This is a great show if you're a retailer or industry manufacturer or producer or concerned consumer of the Texas amp industry.

Please comment below.


www.jointhca.org
www.BorgeltLaw.com


Visit our site.
www.BlazedNews.com
Www.texashempreporter.com

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Texas Hemp Constitutional Alliance Lawsuit

Blazed Weekly News September 10, 2026 11:14 pm

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