Congress voted last year to strip most hemp THC products of their federal legal status, starting November 12. On Saturday morning, the Senate pushed that date to December 11. Here is what the ban actually does, what the vote changed and why this extension is probably the last one. At 3:35 on Saturday morning, after… Keep Reading
Senate leaders released a stopgap that would push most of the federal hemp deadline to December 11. Cannabinoids the plant cannot make still die on schedule, both chambers have to agree and the states writing their own rules are not waiting. Key Takeaways The Senate’s proposed stopgap would delay most of the federal hemp deadline… Keep Reading
Texas still prohibits adult-use marijuana, but hemp legalization, a restricted medical program, and uneven enforcement have created an active market, hiding in plain sight. Texas has not legalized adult-use cannabis. It has, however, spent the past several years creating conditions in which a person can walk by “Free Weed” signs into a store, buy an… Keep Reading
A 501c3 commissioned accredited private labs to test whole hemp biomass. The results are preliminary. They also answer a question that USDA’s food-data infrastructure has spent seven years not asking. Hemp has been federal food in the United States since 2018. Seven years later, USDA’s main nutritional database still has no entry for the whole… Keep Reading
Target is expanding its intoxicating hemp THC beverage program to more than 300 stores across Florida, Texas and Illinois, just six months before a federal ban that would wipe most of those products off shelves. Either Target’s government affairs team knows something the rest of the industry doesn’t, or the math works even if the… Keep Reading
A Travis County judge temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing new hemp rules that had effectively pushed smokable THCA flower and pre-rolls off shelves. For now, the fight is back in court, and back in business. Texas tried to shut the door on smokable hemp. A judge just cracked it back open. A Travis County district… Keep Reading
A limited federal hemp CBD and THC reimbursement program just launched, and anti-marijuana groups are already in court trying to block it. The fight is about access, federal authority and who gets to decide whether cannabinoids belong in patient care. For all the noise around cannabis in Washington, this is one of the more interesting… Keep Reading
A new ProPublica investigation found that Colorado banned chemically converted intoxicating hemp on paper, but weak testing rules, enforcement gaps and industry carve-outs still allowed questionable products to reach consumers through the country’s oldest legal marijuana market. Colorado did not fail because legal weed was a bad idea. Colorado failed because regulators left the door… Keep Reading
As a federal ban nears, alcohol industry power players are pushing to keep hemp THC beverages alive through a regulatory system they already know well. Big Alcohol has spent years watching hemp THC beverages eat into its territory. Now that a federal crackdown is on the horizon, the industry is not asking Congress to leave… Keep Reading
The hemp boom moved fast. In the years following the 2018 Farm Bill, thousands of companies rushed into the market chasing the same wave. CBD was everywhere. Oils, gummies, topicals, drinks—if it could hold a label, someone was selling CBD in it. Most brands were focused on scale. Few were thinking about what came next.… Keep Reading
