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Texas Hemp Businesses Celebrate Lawmakers’ Failure To Pass THC Product Ban

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“I’m glad I was attentive. There is no rest.”

Paul Coberler and Alex Nguyen, Texas Tribune

When the news broke the news on Wednesday after the last minute office regulations, Austin Vape and smoke staff were encouraged to action.

A manager in Zaqui Hensen, a manager in the South Austin shop, has begun to reject the strict regulation or prohibition before its legislators. The rest of the day he joined the store told him to do the same thing, Hensen said.

“I still saw the stream of home, in the case, you don’t know what’s going on at home floor,” Hensen said.

Hensen eventually could relax around 20:00. And patrick (R) announced A message by X The Senate would meet the special hours of the second session later, which effectively closes the legislature, without a new thc restriction or prohibition.

The ability to mobilize smoke shops quickly does not involve the participation of 8 billion texas hemp industry and its customer base against legislative threats this year. 2025. For the best part of the year, industry legislatures have been recorded with the uncertainty of legislators who ban or significantly reduce sales, but on Wednesday, the industry breathed a sigh of relief.

After eight months of the Commission, the hearing, discussions, decided the surprise. Greg Abbott (R) Filling the last minute hemp ban on June and Wednesday, status quo will be largely supported by the industry, for now. Hemp Derived Products: In comfort stores, liquor stores, smoke shops and drinks that sell some foods about the state, too, will be legal.

Cynthia Cabrera, President of the Texas Halamu Council Association, never relaxed this summer in two special sessions, a shortage of public effort from home to pass the entire ban on the hemp. He barely slept when the Senate early on Thursday morning.

“I’m glad I stayed the guardian,” Cabrera said, which is the main strategy of Hometown Hero, Austin-based Thc Product Manufacturer. “There is no rest for rest.”

The impasse of the legislature means a discussion to be made about hemp products. Patrick, who mentioned the use of children as a key motivator, has been confirmed XN posted It is committed to complete prohibition, despite the opposition of Abbott for a measure of such a measure.

Next step: Age restrictions

This year, the legislatures successfully passed some efforts to deal with the sale and marketing of products aimed at young people. For example, the ban Vape pen salesThose who have only passed through the usual session, which are explicitly through the usual session, to see frequently seen pens, lighters, smartphones or other items in schools.

But legislators failed to buy thc products by exceeding the age limit, despite the extensive support. Hemp Industrial Representatives said Welcome More Regulations Prohibit and Abbott directly The cow of the ban on thc hemp Call for restrictions including age limits.

“If public safety and minors were legitimate access, it would be resolved by the age of the age door,” Cabrera said. “This piece of approach means Charles Perry and Dan Patrick’s thought necessary to access products that Texans use daily.”

From a last special session, House 36. The bill It was based on banning products for children under 21. It was discussed among the last minute negotiations on Wednesday, although he finally died in a home committee, without receiving it.

This leaves age restrictions in the hands of merchants.

Hensen said his smoke shop, along with other stores that regularly communicate, have already limited access to their stores for 21 or more, as the state increased the age of 21st to 21.

Individual supporters also mentioned concerns about quality control quality control, Hensen said the first stores preferably.

“If you have a bad product on your shelves, the customer will not come again and buy again,” Hensen said. “There is no reason to be something that someone would send to the hospital.”

The damage already made

While the hemp industry avoided catastrophic prohibition, legislators decided to remove thc thcs in the market to be negatively affected by the decision. Hensen, together with other Austin smoking stores, calculated about 20 percent of sales per month.

“Yesterday I had a couple of people (THC) when requesting vapes,” Eduard Streltosov said a director of the Dream dream dream dream dream dream dend. “When I said, we didn’t have more, they left without buying anything.”

At the same time, marijuana medical expansions, therefore, has made discrepancies today, to sell Thc Vapes, tightening the first of the two cannabis.

Along with the hemp consumer, shops sell nicotine products, glass pipes and bongs. Most stores said that bannings would not be forced to completely extinguish, but it is likely that it would lead to some employees and dismissals for others.

The uncertainty of the hemp industry has also prevented growth. Austin Smoke & Vape intended to open a new location at the beginning of the year and hire more workers, but these plans paused in the spring as the prohibition measurement did during the legislature.

According to the legislature, the defenders have stated that the Department of State Health Services in Texas has already been able to supervise the law for the hemp industry, but the legislators rarely complied. Law enforcement officials believe Missing funding is regularly inspected and testing products Because fatal drugs like fentanyl take priority in crime laboratories.

The influence of the doctor marijuana

Conflicting laws of the country’s cannabis have put two sides of the industry against each other in Texas. Although it is legal derivative hemp, marijuana remains Federally unless illegal with a recipe. The highly regulated medical industry in the regulated Texas doctors have encouraged regulation and have no prohibition in the industry of his sister, Lossing customers to hemp industry.

Texas has been a medical marijuana program since 2015, and has expanded three times since 2019 and 2021 and this year. It is a restrictive program that only allow patients with a close number of conditions to buy marijuana from small number of authorized distributors.

Jervonne Singletary said a spokesman at Marijuana Mediciles at Goodblend.

“We want to make sure that people are taking that they are safe and effective,” Singles said. “At the end of the day, they are products with very few genetic differences in products, and therefore should be treated in a form or fashion way.”

As a result of the legislature, thc derived from hemp also affected the medical marijuana industry. Singletary’s company made calls worried about patients in the spring and summer, the legislative discussion could also be accessed to the Medical Marijuana.

The passage of the medical marijuana program will still be for the industry, singletarian said that the law does not seem to be similar to the hard conditions that the law stored their products. But the census could Take several monthsdelaying increased access to user support.

“Uncertainty has been difficult to plan, but I think that we can now proceed with this uncertainty that interferes with business development, and the industry can move forward with the legislature that actually supports the program.”

Heather Fazio, Defense Director of Texas Cannabis Policy Center, despite living discussions about marijuana and medical hemp, is closer to legalizing Texas recreation marijuana. The Fazio Defense Group has worked in the decade in the decade, to encourage the creation of the Marijuana Medijuana program, reducing marijuana property, protect the hemp industry and fully legalization of the drug.

“We are in the right direction, and we have significant conversations about these policies,” Fades said. “When we can have a seat at the table and when we have legislators at the table, we start breaking the problem and help us find shared values.”

This article originally appeared Texas Tribune at https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/05/05/05/06/09/10.

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New access solution for cannabis facilities designed to address limitations of traditional gates

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SpaceGuard Products, a North American manufacturer of wire mesh security solutions and security protection systems, has released the BeastWire® Tunnel Door. This access solution is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional balanced doors and is aimed at cannabis cultivation, processing, packaging and distribution environments. The BeastWire Tunnel Door is designed for installations that require vertical clearance, reliable movement and floor space efficiency.

The BeastWire Tunnel Door provides top clearance with no tracks in the operating path of the door. It is suitable for spaces where overhead paths are not feasible, such as facilities that use high-mast forklifts, oversized pallet loads or specialized material handling equipment. Tall equipment can pass through the opening unhindered, allowing for continuous workflow and flexibility in equipment movement.

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The door uses a track system designed to create consistent movement. This addresses issues such as stuttering, binding, and misalignment that can occur with conventional sliding or counterbalanced designs. The track controls the path of the door so that the locking mechanism aligns with each cycle, allowing operators to close the door with relatively low force.

Unlike lower track systems that require a soil trench, the BeastWire Tunnel Door mounts above ground. This avoids cutting the installation slab, simplifies installation and reduces maintenance requirements. The system can be installed as a retrofit or in new construction, without changing the floor.

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The door frame and retractable design reduces the need for side supports and additional space on the side of the door. This results in a smaller footprint and more usable surface area. The gate has the same construction approach as other BeastWire systems.

The BeastWire Tunnel Door is a high-access door designed for strength and ease of use in cannabis industry facilities.

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DEA Defends Stance That Synthetic Cannabis Compound HHC Is Federally Banned In Response To Industry Lawsuits

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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is resisting efforts by two hemp companies to resist the determination that it is a cannabinoid It is illegal synthetically produced from components of the cannabis plant.

The DEA issued a rule last month saying that was already the case made hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) an illegal substance Under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the agency will now assign the compound its own unique drug code for classification.

That move is being challenged in a series of lawsuits by hemp businesses that say the agency’s decision is “unlawful.”

In addition to filing petitions for review, the companies are also petitioning federal courts to block the agency’s action while the lawsuits proceed.

The DEA, in briefs filed in the cases this week, argued that each applicant “does not meet any of the factors necessary to demonstrate that it should await review.”

“The rule does not affect HHC’s previous status as a Schedule I substance; all it does is list HHC separately and assign it a separate drug code,” the agency’s brief said.

“With or without the final rule, HHC is a controlled substance. Thus, even if this Court stayed the final rule pending review, (companies) would continue to be subject to existing legal and commercial risks for HHC-related actions,” they say, “Contrary, the suspension would undermine the government’s efforts to improve the regulation of HHC, including the permitted amount or approval process for public permits for HHC. Interests also favor a stay, which would create confusion about HHC’s status as a controlled substance.”

HHC can be found in trace amounts in cannabis plants, but it is also synthesized from hydrogenated cannabidiol (CBD). Delta-9 is sometimes sprayed on cannabis flowers that are low in THC, the most well-known psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, and its psychoactive effects are said to be similar.

While the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp and its derivatives with less than 0.3 percent delta-9 THC, the DEA says that only applies to naturally occurring cannabinoids, not synthetic ones. Accordingly, the agency’s position is that HHC does not fall within the definition of legal hemp.

One of the pending cases, filed by Bluestar Operations, LLC before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, refers to a prior ruling in that jurisdiction. the hemp-derived cannabinoid THC-O-acetate is federally legal Despite the DEA’s claims to the contrary.

“Congress deliberately used broad statutory language and did not prohibit cannabinoids that are subject to common extraction, refining, conversion, hydrogenation, distillation, or similar manufacturing processes commonly used in the hemp industry,” the complaint states.

The DEA’s move “conflicts with the plain text, structure, and intent of the 2018 Farm Bill and inserts unlawful limitations that Congress neither intended nor enacted,” it says. The agency’s action “has already caused specific and immediate harm to the petitioner, including substantial compliance costs, business uncertainty, reputational damage, disruption of business relationships, and interference with ongoing operations.”

“Congress, not executive agencies such as the DEA, defines the scope of federal criminal liability. The DEA has no authority to curtail Congress’s legalization of hemp-cannabinoids through an interpretive construction that the statutory text does not support.”

Bluestar said in its new response to the DEA’s initial response brief that the agency “cannot defend the merits of treating hemp-derived HHC as a Schedule I controlled substance, which this Court rejected against binding Circuit precedent” in the previous ThC-O-acetate case.

“The respondents have recast the impugned DEA rule as a weightless ‘technical correction’ that harms no one and decides nothing,” he said. “They have then flipped the script by arguing that Bluestar lacks standing to challenge. Respondents can’t have it both ways.”

The other new lawsuit was filed by IHC Investments, Inc. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which previously ruled on the federal legalization of hemp through the 2018 Farm Bill. removed the limits on the wide range of molecules produced by the cannabis plant-delta-8 including the psychoactive cannabinoid THC.

The petition states that “the DEA effectively, and therefore unlawfully, attempts to expand federal criminal liability through administrative interpretation that is not supported by the plain statutory text of the enabling legislation.”

“Congress did not prohibit converted cannabinoids, hydrogenated cannabinoids, or cannabinoids subject to common processing techniques,” the complaint states. “Congress did not expressly authorize the DEA to criminalize broad categories of hemp-derived cannabinoids through administrative interpretation.”

Both petitions argue that the DEA’s move last month violates the central question doctrine, which holds that if an agency wants to decide a matter of national importance, that action must be protected by clear authorization from Congress.

The agency’s HHC ban “has enormous economic and political significance affecting the multibillion-dollar nationwide hemp industry,” says the lawsuit brought by Bluestar.

David Sergi, the attorney leading the new Ninth Circuit case for IHC Investments, said in a press release Thursday that the DEA’s action “directly conflicts” with the 2018 federal Farm Bill legalizing hemp and its derivatives.

“The DEA’s ruling has caused immediate and specific harm to hemp businesses across the nation,” he said. “That reclassification has led to immediate cancellation of contracts, loss of banking relationships and potential destruction of important inventory.”

The DEA, for its part, said in a rule it filed last month that “only tetrahydrocannabinols in or derived from the cannabis plant — not synthetic tetrahydrocannabinols — are exempt from regulation as ‘hemp tetrahydrocannabinol.’

“For further clarification, tetrahydrocannabinols produced through chemical conversion, even when considered synthetically produced when derived from hemp for purposes of the CSA, are not classified as ‘tetrahydrocannabinol in hemp'” under the 2018 Farm Bill, the agency said.

The Federal Register notice was not the first time the DEA addressed HHC’s legal status.

In a 2023 letter, Terrance Boos, chief of the DEA’s Drug and Chemical Evaluation Section, wrote: HHC “does not occur naturally in the cannabis plant and can only be obtained syntheticallyand therefore it is not within the definition of hemp”.

The new filing, signed by DEA Administrator Terrance Cole, said, “this rule does not in any way affect the continued status of hexahydrocannabinol as a controlled substance.”

“This action, as an administrative matter, establishes a separate and specific listing of hexahydrocannabinol in Schedule I of the CSA and assigns a DEA drug code to that substance,” he said. “This action will allow the DEA to establish an aggregate production quota and issue individual manufacturing and purchase quotas to DEA-registered manufacturers of hexahydrocannabinol, which were previously issued individual quotas for these purposes under the tetrahydrocannabinol drug code.”

The DEA’s release cited a move it made last year International drug control organizations to add HHC II of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances—but the document fails to note that when the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took the measure, the US was the only country to abstain from voting.

The DEA said the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) “conforms to the direct listing and drug code assignment of hexahydrocannabinol in the CSA.”

Meanwhile, under provisions of a large-scale spending bill signed by President Donald Trump late last year, the federal definition of legal cannabis will change in November. If that language does not change or its the effective date has been postponed, as requested by some members of parliamentonly hemp products with a total of 0.4 milligrams of THC per container will remain legal after November 12th.

At the same time, however, the Trump administration is going wider reschedule marijuana under federal lawwith a A DEA hearing on the matter will begin next week.

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Good Behavior dispensary applies to open in Yorkville

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A cannabis company called Good Behavior is seeking approval from the city of Yorkville, Illinois, to open a dispensary on a 0.93-acre plot along Saravanos Drive, west of South Bridge Street and south of Stagecoach Trail, becoming the latest entrant in a string of cannabis proposals the city has previously rejected. The company has filed a special-use application with the city and is staking its case on the tax revenue a dispensary would generate for Yorkville.

Full details of the application, including projected tax figures, the company’s ownership structure and details of any board discussions, are available to Shaw Local News Network subscribers. The article, reported by Shaw Local News Network’s Joey Weslo and published on June 23, 2026, notes that cannabis companies had previously failed to get city approval before Good Behavior presented its proposal.

The proposed site places the dispensary in a commercial corridor to the south of the city. Good Behavior’s application requires a special use permit from Yorkville before the project can proceed.

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