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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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Fluent to sell New York license and operations

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Fluent has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Etain, LLC, the Company’s New York-based operating entity. The purchase agreement was signed on July 22, 2026. The transaction provides for the sale of Etain’s Registered Entity license, certain of the Company’s New York operating assets and related New York leases for cash, subject to customary purchase price adjustments.

The Company believes the Transaction advances its strategic objectives and expects the Transaction to comply with applicable regulatory requirements in connection with the Company’s previously announced plan of arrangement for Vireo Growth Inc. (the “Deal”) while providing for an orderly transition of the New York operations to an experienced operator committed to serving patients and consumers.

Completion of the free transaction is subject to closing conditions, including, among other customary conditions, approval of the change in ownership by the New York State Cannabis Control Board and the completion of all conditions to the completion of the Agreement.

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Marijuana Has ‘Horrific Health Risks’ And No Medical Value, Former Trump Attorney General Claims

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A former US attorney general who served in President Donald Trump’s first term says marijuana poses “tremendous health risks,” has no medical value and should not be rescheduled under federal law.

“Marijuana redistricting would create a false impression that it is safe, reduce penalties for illegally selling the drug, and provide a large tax windfall to those who legally supply it,” William Barr wrote in a Wednesday op-ed for The Washington Post, Kevin Sabet, CEO of the prohibitionist organization Smart Approaches to Marijuana. “That would be a disaster.”

The opinion comes as the Trump administration moves forward with cannabis reregulation.

According to an order issued in April by US Attorney General Todd Blanche, Marijuana products regulated by a state medical cannabis license were immediately changed from Schedule I As did marijuana products approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).

an administrator The hearing is looking at the broader rescheduling of marijuanawith The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been tasked with advocating for cannabis reform highlighting the testimony about the medical benefits of marijuana and its relative safety compared to other substances such as alcohol and opioids. It included appearances by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientist and a doctor from New Hampshire. Medical marijuana provides relief to pain patients and can serve as an alternative to opioids.

But Sabet and Barr, who served as Trump’s attorney general from 2019-2020, argued that “the evidence presented at the hearing did not support the rescheduling of marijuana” and instead “confirmed what decades of data have shown: raw marijuana has no scientifically established medical value and is highly susceptible to abuse.”

After the parties to the hearing have filed termination rights, the DEA administrative law judge overseeing the proceedings will make a recommendation regarding rescheduling, and the agency administrator will make a final decision.

DEA Administrator Terrance Cole only organizations and individuals opposed to marijuana reform have been invited to the hearing as a designated participant – telling supporters that they do not meet the definition of “interested person” to participate because they have not been “affected or prejudiced by any rule or proposed rule that may be issued.”

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The former attorney general’s new opinion says “the stakes couldn’t be higher”, arguing that “marijuana today is more dangerous than ever” and that it is “addictive”, throwing out a list of alleged harm to mental and physical health.

“These unhealthy effects are a predictable result of a powerful and addictive drug being normalized, commercialized and marketed as a medicine,” Barr and Sabet say. “It would be one thing if marijuana had medical value. But there is no credible evidence that marijuana is an effective treatment for any medical condition, despite the millions of dollars spent trying to prove otherwise.”

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a 252 analysis in 2023 that concluded that marijuana had accepted medical value and should be rescheduled.

The new opposition piece also says that “rescheduling would unlock enormous revenue for the corporate marijuana industry by bringing it into a category that has not been covered by a longstanding reduction in federal drug tax deductions,” referring to a law known as 280E, which repeals Sections I and II.

“This, in turn, would allow the industry to spend even more on advertising and marketing to young people,” Barr and Sabet. he wroteArguing that “those who would lose this dragon in society are laying the foundations for another Big Tobacco”.

The Sabet organization, SAM, is one of several parties Challenging the Marijuana Redistricting Process which have been upheld by a federal Court of Appeals. those separate parts State attorneys general have filed lawsuits against cannabis reform, Opponents of marijuana legalization and a a cannabis-based biopharmaceutical corporation.

SAM’s lawsuit was signed by attorneys at Torridon Law PLLC, where Barr is a partner.

The team announced in January that it was Hiring Barr’s firm to fight cannabis rescheduling After Trump signed an executive order directing officials to quickly complete the process.

During the first Trump administration, Barr was accused by a Justice Department official Directing improper anti-company investigations into multiple cannabis company mergers– Accounting for almost a third of the division’s cases in 2019.

Several Democratic members of Congress introduced a resolution calling for an investigation into Barr’s possible impeachment, saying “abused the power of his office” to improperly investigate marijuana businesses while engaging in other allegedly illegal conduct.

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How much red light does cannabis really need?

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When growers pull out two LED fixtures side by side, the first number they usually discuss is percent red. This is an easy specification to fix. They are efficient at producing red photons and incredibly efficient at photosynthesis, and cannabis eats away at the flower. So more red must be better, right?

Not so simple. Red is an input to a spectrum, and the spectrum is an input to a room. There is no single spectrum that wins everywhere. An indoor room pushes hard, a greenhouse that soaks up sunlight, a temperamental cultivar, and aggressive yields call for something different. Knowing what each light strip actually does allows you to choose a tool that fits your grow instead of one that just has a big number on the sales page.

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Blue: structure
Blue (approximately 400-500 nm) gives shape to the plant. It maintains dense growth, strong stems, tight internodes and allows it to develop as desired. It also encourages stomatal opening, so the plant manages water and gas exchange better. Get blue and you’ve built a plant that can carry heavy flowers with no problem.

Green: access
Green was eliminated as the wavelength is “reflected” by plants. It turns out that it does a real job. Blue and red are absorbed above; the green goes deep into the fat and reaches the leaves that are never touched by the above photons. In a compact room, it’s the difference between plants photosynthesising from the top down and those that work only from the top. Green won’t replace your red or blue, but it does carry usable light where they can’t reach.

Red: engine
Red is the horse of the flower. It absorbs as efficiently as anything in the spectrum, and is responsible for most of the biomass you’re after. Redder generally means faster flower development, more weight and better efficiency per watt.

But red has a ceiling, and it’s tied to what you run. Push PPFD upwards with a heavy red spectrum and some cultivars begin to whiten at the top: the flower should be dense with pale, washed tips. Genetics, intensity, barrel temperature and your general environment all feed into it. If you’re using aggressive light levels, a lower red spectrum will buy you room before that becomes a problem, leaving you almost no photosynthetic punch to get it.

Far Red: More than Emerson
Far-red (700-750 nm) appears in more devices every year. It contributes little to photosynthesis on its own, but it moves plant morphology and works with red through the Emerson Enhancement Effect. Used properly, it helps to deepen the light, encourage uniformity of the canopy and encourage the response of the bloom. The key word is small. A touch of far red rounds out a spectrum; he’s not there to make a show.

Matching the red percentage with the room
Cannabis addresses the entire spectrum, not a line on a spec sheet. Reds cause flowers, but blues, greens and crimsons give the plant something it needs. Where you land in red refers to how you grow.

A lower red spectrum (30-40%) captures more blue and green, gives you better morphology, reduces the risk of photobleaching, and holds up when you’re running extreme PPFD. Moderate spectrum (40-55%) is the sweet spot in commercial greenhouses: strong photosynthetic efficiency, strong flowering, balanced growth. A high-red spectrum (70%+) makes the most sense in a greenhouse, where the sun is already giving you lots of blue and green and your supplemental light can cast effective red to fill the gap.

Where does the ETS MAX series fit in?
This is the thinking behind the JumpLights ETS MAX series. Instead of forcing a spectrum into each room, it rarely comes up because a greenhouse and a high PPFD indoor flower room are not the same problem.

  • ETS MAX 4C41% red: for indoor rooms operating at very high intensity, where photobleaching is a real risk. The wider, red bottom balance allows you to push the tops without overcooking them
  • ETS MAX 4A48% red: balanced internal spectrum that maintains high output while controlling bleaching.
  • ETS MAX 5B57% Red: A high-performance indoor option. Moderate red, marked with efficiency and flower at the same time, up to 3,450 μmol/s, with efficiency that holds the spectrum.
  • ETS MAX 7A76% red: built for the greenhouse. The sun already supplies blue and green, so this leans heavily on the complementary red, up to 3,900 μmol/s in the infrastructure most greenhouses already have in place.

Bottom line
Choosing an activity is not a competition for the highest red number. The winning spectrum is the one that matches your environment, your intensity, your genetics, and what you’re trying to produce. Combine spectrum, intensity, environmental control, light distribution and genetics, and you’ve got a lighting strategy. Keep a spec isolated and all you’ve got is a bright room.

The ETS MAX line was created around this idea: choose the spectrum of the room you actually have, indoor or greenhouse, and let the device work with your grow rather than against it.

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