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  CBD Shops Adapt to Gov. Abbott's Confusing Ban on Smokable Hemp

  August 6 at 4 a.m.

  Just as the Texas hemp business begins to thrive, local industry professionals will have to take a step back and re-evaluate their business models as a ban on retail sales of smokable hemp flower is in full effect. In 2019, Gov. Gregg Abbott signed House Bill 1325, which legalized the...

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  'I'm a Capitalist, and I Have Goals:' A Weed Dealer on How the Pandemic Disrupted Business

  June 17 at 4:50 a.m.

  To help protect the anonymity of the person highlighted in this story, I’ve used they/them pronouns. “I’m a business[redacted], trying to be an entrepreneur in a world that’s on fire.” The Capitalist is savvy. Over many years, they have built a successful small business in Dallas, which is not the...

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  Compassionate Cultivation Delivers CBD Products to 300 Patients in North Texas

  May 26 at 4 a.m.

  No matter how much we depend on them, CBD stores in Dallas were not considered essential businesses and were recently forced to close down. This started a domino effect that left thousands of patients and consumers in the area to either ration their cannabis-derived medication, or risk breaking the law...

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  High Times: How to Conserve Your Cannabis During the Quarantine

  April 3 at 4 a.m.

  We know how hard it is to get through this time without the things you deem essential. If you couldn’t make it to your favorite CBD store before they were forced to shut down, you will need to find a way to make what is left in your stash last...

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  We Took a Crash Course in Cannabis and Realized We Knew Nothing

  February 21 at 4 a.m.

  Most people who smoke cannabis consider themselves as connoisseurs and botanists specializing in the cannabis plant. And sure, they could probably look at a bud and tell if it's good or not, but we’d bet money that they couldn’t tell someone how that bud would make them feel without even...

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  The Hemp Convention Vendors Were as Confused as We Are by Texas Cannabis Laws

  February 3 at 4 a.m.

  Even with the confusion that has surrounded Texas' cannabis laws in the last few years, consumers and industry professionals from across the world gathered last week at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center for the first Texas Hemp Convention. The place was flooded with people and hemp. More than 10,000 attendees...