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The Week in Weed: May 30, 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 White Earth Nation signed a compact with the…
Kight on Cannabis
Hemp Law Updates – Big Changes in Texas, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Kentucky
By Rod Kight
If you are new to cannabis or hemp, you may be overwhelmed by the headlines recently. But rest assured, those of us who have been around for a few years…
Budding Trends
And Now the Rest of the Story: Alabama’s New Hemp Restrictions Also Legitimize Segments of the Industry
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. That’s been the tenor of what I’ve heard and read from stakeholders in the Alabama hemp industry in response to the…
Cannabis Law Now
When Less Isn’t More: the Texas Hemp Ban and the Risks of Unregulated Markets
By Steve Levine, Alyssa Samuel
Late Wednesday evening the Texas House of Representatives dealt the hemp industry in the Lone Star State what can only be described as a Texas size heartache with the passage…
Kight on Cannabis
Texas is About to Massacre Its Hemp Industry
By Rod Kight
The lights are dimming for the Texas hemp industry, which looks poised to suffer a massacre. Although the final text of Senate Bill 3 may not be available for several…
Canna Law Blog
Colorado Continues Enforcing Intoxicating Hemp Regulations – Will More States Follow?
In June 2023, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed SB 23-271 (codified in C.R.S. 25-5-427 and regulated by 6 CCR 1010-24), a landmark bill regulating intoxicating hemp products in the state.…
Kight on Cannabis
The National Security Implications of Protecting Legal Hemp Access in the United States (Guest Article)
By Rod Kight
Making hemp-derived cannabinoid products illegal, or reducing their accessibility, will result in more private citizens choosing to use federally illegal marijuana products and hence, reducing the number of individuals who…
Budding Trends
Is “Compromise” a Four-Letter Word? Alabama Legislature Passes Comprehensive Consumable Hemp Reform Bill
“Compromise” sometimes gets a bad rap. And history teaches us that there can be bad compromises. But as your resident glass-is-half-full contributor who has also been closely following debate over…
Cannabis Law Now
Is Alcohol-Style Federal Regulation Coming for THC Beverages?
By Former Attorney Hilary Bricken, Brent Salmons
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that "THC beverages" derived from hemp have exploded across America (at least in states where they are allowed by law). Time…
Kight on Cannabis
The sun is setting on proposed hemp bills in the Sunshine State
By Rod Kight
We’ll have to wait the next few days to see if any legislative action on hemp takes place in Florida, but—for now at least—it seems none of the pending hemp…