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Budding Trends
After Fierce Debate, Texas Chooses to Regulate, Not Prohibit, Consumable Hemp Products
By Slates C. Veazey, Whitt Steineker, Stephen McCluskey
For the past eight months, cannabis operators and consumers in Texas — and nationwide — have closely watched the state’s hemp debate. As the second most populous state, Texas’ approach…
Cannabis Law Blog
Michigan House Looks to Solve Cannabis Industry Issues, Addressing Payment Defaults and Hemp Regulation
Takeways HB 4963 would require licensees to pay for cannabis products at the time of transfer. HB 4964 and related bills would create a new Industrial Hemp Processing Act and…
Cannabis Law Blog
Texas Issues New Executive Order on Hemp-Derived THC Products: What It Means for Industry and Lawmakers
By Eric White, Antonio Cifuentes
Takeaways New compliance requirements are coming: Texas agencies will soon roll out stricter rules on age verification, labeling, and retailer obligations. Retailers face heightened risk: Noncompliance could result in loss…
Kight on Cannabis
Texas Hemp Industry Faces New Threat from Governor Abbott’s Executive Order
By Rod Kight
Governor Abbott issued an Executive Order that could effectively wipe out sales of THCa hemp flower in Texas. This comes on top of the state legislature’s earlier ban on cannabinoid…
Inside Business Immigration
New Foreign Affairs Manual Guidance: Legal Hemp Activities No Longer Grounds for Visa Inadmissibility
Recent changes to the Foreign Affairs Manual offer crucial clarity for employers and foreign nationals in the hemp industry, ensuring that lawful hemp-related activities are no longer automatically treated as…
Kight on Cannabis
Texas Hemp Industry Victorious as THC Ban Bill Dies
By Rod Kight
What Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and other Texas prohibitionists fail to realize is that hemp is wildly popular across the political spectrum. While Texans, including the state's hemp industry, support…
Kight on Cannabis
Cross-Pollination: How Cannabis Companies Can Break into the Hemp Business (And Vice Versa)
By Rod Kight
Licensing your hemp or cannabis brand to an existing operator on the other side of the hemp-cannabis divide can be a great way to maximize the separation between these activities…
Budding Trends
What You Need to Know: Texas Substantially Expands Medical Cannabis Program
By Slates C. Veazey, Whitt Steineker, Stephen McCluskey
Everything’s bigger in Texas, unless you’re talking about the medical cannabis program. It’s no secret that Texas has the potential to be a behemoth in the space, but for years,…
The Blunt Truth®
The Week in Weed: August 8, 2025
By Susan Ryan
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what's happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the big news is that Delaware's retail market has…
Canna Law Blog
New Mexico Emergency Hemp Rules: The Regulatory Gap and Market Impact
Effective August 1, 2025, the New Mexico Environmental Department (NMED) issued emergency amendments to New Mexico’s Hemp extraction, production, transportation, warehousing, and testing administrative code. These amendments were created to…