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Hemp, Dirty DSHS, and the Limits of Getting Cute

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As the hemp industry approaches the Department of State Health Services’ public comment hearing, the broader context deserves attention. Texas’s system of administrative law was built for moments exactly like this one. The Open Meetings Act, the Public Information Act, and the Administrative Proc…
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Come Get Baked & Blazed with Blazed Magazine • Free Spring Show

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Blazed Magazine is offering Booth Space at our Spring Show at Shiner Saloon Saturday March 14th 2026  • Celebrate the Plant this Spring with Blazed Magazine Shiner Saloon invited us back to the “Rooftop” for an UN-Official FREE SXSW Show ! Live Music with Backseat Soundtrack • Daddy S…
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Mystery “Enforcement” Notices Appear at Austin Smoke Shops

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And the goal isn’t compliance — it’s fear Shortly before 10 p.m. on a Friday night in early January 2026, a man walked up to an Austin smoke shop with a bright yellow notice already peeled and ready in his hand. Security footage shows the moment clearly. He does not hesitate. He does not enter [&…
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Blazed Texas Flower Challenge

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  Inside the judging, the winners, and why Texas growers held their own.   The Blazed Texas Flower Challenge brought together serious heat from across the country. Twenty one entrants. Five judges. One simple scoring system designed to cut through hype and get straight to the flower. Ea…
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Blazed Gummy Challenge

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The Blazed Gummy Challenge: How It Works The Blazed Gummy Challenge is the next evolution of Blazed product competitions, built to evaluate one of the fastest-growing segments in the cannabis and hemp-derived market: edibles. Much like our Flower competitions, this challenge is designed to be str…
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Spielberg & Disclosure Day

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  For nearly half a century, Steven Spielberg has used cinema to rehearse humanity for a moment he has never fully shown on screen: official extraterrestrial disclosure. His protégé, J. J. Abrams, inherited this framework—and in Super 8, echoed it with near-surgical precision. When viewed al…
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Trump’s Schedule III play

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The better question is simpler and more unnerving: what happens when a President decides the machinery already sitting on the table should finally be used the way it was built to be used—and staffs the relevant agencies with people who don’t confuse delay with virtue. According to the Washington …
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Alex Jones: Austin’s Public-Access Alchemist Who Turned Paranoia into a Media Empire

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Before algorithms decided what Americans should think, before podcasts became corporate, and long before “alternative media” was a marketing category, there was Austin, Texas—hot, strange, conspiratorial, and wide open. Out of that chaos emerged Alex Jones: a bullhorn-wielding public-access fireb…
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Case Closed: Do We Finally Have Answers to the Decades-long Yogurt Shop Murders Mystery?

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A community breathes a sigh of relief as a decades-long cold case is solved.
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The National Cannabis Violations Texas Cannot Ignore

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For the first time, the nation’s biggest cannabis corporations—multi-state operators with headquarters, licenses, and major market share in Illinois and other key states—are lining up for a limited number of medical cannabis licenses here. These are the companies that dominate Chicago’s cannabis …
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The Day the Federal Government Finally Stopped Lying About Marijuana

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For more than fifty years, the federal government has maintained a position about marijuana that almost everyone involved understood to be false. Not unsettled, not ambiguous, but false in the ordinary sense of the word. Since 1970, cannabis has been classified under federal law as a Schedule I c…
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Big Marijuana’s Texas Play:

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Political Editor, Blazed News Inside DPS’s High-Risk Bet on Nine MSOs—and Why the Industry Pushed Back Texas has quietly crossed a threshold that will define the future of its medical cannabis program—and possibly its broader cannabis policy—for years to come. On December 2, the Texas Department …
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2025 GUMMY Challenge –

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BLAZED MAGAZINE THC CHALLENGE CONTINUES WITH OUR Best of 2025 GUMMY Challenge is this WINTER! Like our Beverage & Flower contest, your brand will compete for 2025 Gummie of the Year!   SUBMIT YOUR GUMMY BY DEC 21ST WHEN YOU PURCHASE A Full Page Ad   • OR  A 1/2 Page Ad   https://youtube….
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Geremy Greens: Harvest Is Over—Now What?

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Curing and Stuff Another harvest season is officially behind us, and for growers across the state, this is where the real work begins. People love talking about planting, feeding, and flushing—but drying and curing is where flower becomes medicine, and where a lot of good work can go sideways fas…
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Compassionate Use Program: 9 New Licensee

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Texas is taking meaningful steps to strengthen the Texas Compassionate Use Program following the passage of HB 46. New qualifying conditions like chronic pain, traumatic brain injury, Crohn’s disease, and hospice care are now in effect, and DSHS has adopted rules for approving inhalation devices …
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The Age of Disclosure: Film Review

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What It Claims to Be The film, directed by Dan Farah, centers on the claim — laid out by 34 former government, military, and intelligence-community insiders — that non-human intelligence has visited Earth, that there’s been a decades-long cover-up, and possibly a secret “reverse-engineering…
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The 420 Times

Smoke Temple and The Evolution of Pre-Rolled Art
– Shane Dwyer

Smoke Temple didn’t start with a full collection of unique […]

How to Find the Best 420 Deals at Dispensaries
– Shane Dwyer

Every April, cannabis shoppers start watching for the biggest promotions […]

Pre Roll Tubes 101: What Cannabis Consumers Should Know Before…
– Shane Dwyer

Bio: Julie Kuepers is a senior content strategist and copywriter […]

Cannabis Feed • Google News

Air India pilot's reported cannabis test: What it can and…

Air India pilot's reported cannabis test: What it can and […]

THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD…

THC in cannabis may reduce nightmares in people with PTSD  New […]

Bay Area woman learns to grow cannabis plants. Now, she's…

Bay Area woman learns to grow cannabis plants. Now, she's […]

On a square-foot basis, cannabis growhouses use more power than…

On a square-foot basis, cannabis growhouses use more power than […]

Marijuana Report

New Users Guide: dosing, formats, strains, tech
– /u/Sharky-PI

Weed New Users Guide Weed vs booze This guide assumes you […]

What is that little compartment on grinders for?
– /u/buryme6feetdeep

The top to half of my plastic grinder comes off and […]

What's the best weed pen to buy online?
– /u/UseApprehensive6226

i’ve been wanting to pick up a solid weed pen online, […]

Hail Mary Jane

Weed Delivery Services in Los Angeles
– Hail Mary Jane

Discover the best weed delivery services in Los Angeles, including […]

4/20 Events & Promotions
– Kevin

When a group of high school students in Marin County, […]

Humidor: The Only Weed Storage Box You’ll Ever Need
– Kevin

Table of Contents 5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Using […]

Cannabis Industry Journal

The Overlooked Risks of Hardware in Pipes, Vapes and Dab Rigs
– Pam Chmiel

For years, much of the conversation around cannabis quality has […]

California Court Orders DCC to Overhaul Cannabis Track-and-Trace System
– Pam Chmiel

Orange County ruling finds California’s current system does not comply […]

“One-Gram Ceramic 510” Is Not a Cartridge Specification
– Pam Chmiel

Cannabis brands often approve a cartridge sample and then place […]

Q&A: Hirsh Jain on Cannabis Rescheduling, Interstate Commerce and the…
– Pam Chmiel

After years of uncertainty, cannabis companies are looking toward a […]

Top Cannabis Payroll Mistakes Operators Should Avoid
– Pam Chmiel

Compared to licensing, compliance, and supply chains, payroll rarely receives […]

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