Introduction The Texas Supreme Court handed the state’s hemp industry a significant blow on May 1, 2026, ruling that the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has the authority to classify delta-8 THC as a Schedule I controlled substance — and lifting the temporary injunction that had shielded hemp retailers...

Introduction On April 30, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 224-200 to pass the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 — the 2026 Farm Bill. The margin was narrow. The impact on the hemp industry was decisive: the bill passed without any language delaying or modifying the...

Introduction As the House passed its Farm Bill without hemp delay provisions on April 30, attention in the hemp industry has shifted entirely to the Senate — and to a small cluster of legislative vehicles that could, if advanced, push the November 12 compliance deadline further into the future. One...

Introduction New Jersey is not waiting for November 12 to begin tightening hemp THC standards. The state is implementing a two-stage compliance framework: an interim standard that takes effect May 31, 2026, followed by a full prohibition on intoxicating hemp beverage sales through general retail channels on November 13, 2026....

Introduction California has taken one of the most consequential state-level actions on hemp THC of any jurisdiction in the country: emergency regulations that effectively prohibit hemp-derived THC products from being sold through general retail and require them to enter the state’s established licensed cannabis regulatory system. For the hemp industry,...

Introduction The wait is over for Missouri hemp retailers — and not in the way they hoped. On April 23, 2026, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed House Bill 2641 into law, establishing the “Intoxicating Cannabinoid Control Act” and effectively banning the sale of intoxicating hemp products in the state beginning...

Introduction Minnesota’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) delivered a significant regulatory shock to small hemp producers on April 21, 2026, when it published two new lab bulletins establishing updated testing compliance requirements. For vaping products, the new rules take effect May 1. For beverages, the requirements are immediate. The rules...

Introduction Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) announced in April 2026 that it is pledging a significant crackdown on a practice that has been quietly undermining the state’s regulated cannabis market: manufacturers using cheap, unregulated hemp to produce products sold as licensed marijuana in state dispensaries. The enforcement announcement, which was...

Introduction As states across the country figure out what to do with hemp-derived THC beverages after November 12, 2026, New Jersey is charting a notably different path than outright prohibition. Rather than simply banning hemp THC beverages from the market, New Jersey is advancing legislation that would route those products...

Introduction The hemp industry had been watching the House Agriculture Committee’s markup of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 as a potential vehicle for delay or relief from the November 12 compliance deadline. On March 5, 2026, that window effectively closed. The committee voted 34-17 to advance...

Introduction Buried inside the 2026 Farm Bill's hemp provisions is a change that could meaningfully improve hemp testing infrastructure across the industry: the proposed removal of the DEA laboratory registration requirement for hemp testing, replaced by a new USDA-led accreditation process developed in consultation with the DEA. For B2B hemp...

Introduction Minnesota built one of the most visible and commercially successful hemp THC markets in the country. Under state law, hemp-derived beverages containing up to 10 milligrams of THC per serving became legal and widely distributed — sold in liquor stores, bars, taprooms, and grocery retailers across the state. The...

Introduction A Minnesota judge has issued a ruling blocking the state's direct-to-consumer ban on low-THC hemp edibles — a development that cuts against the prevailing trend of courts deferring to state hemp restrictions. Unlike the Texas smokeable hemp TRO, which was focused on procedural rulemaking challenges, the Minnesota ruling appears...

Introduction The US Hemp Roundtable’s latest state policy update covers legislative and regulatory activity across a wide swath of the country — with Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, and South Dakota all showing meaningful hemp policy movement in the spring 2026 legislative sessions. For B2B hemp ingredient...

Texas Judge Temporarily Blocks Smokeable Hemp Ban  Meta Title: Texas Judge Temporarily Blocks Smokeable Hemp Ban — April 23 Hearing Could Determine Outcome Meta Description: A Texas judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state's new smokeable hemp banHere's what it means for hemp suppliers. Target Keywords: Texas hemp...

Introduction The hemp industry’s long-anticipated move into healthcare-adjacent distribution just took a major concrete step. Cornbread Hemp has secured an exclusive contract with Alliant Purchasing — a group purchasing organization (GPO) that serves 68,000 healthcare locations affiliated with Medicare programs — to supply USDA organic hemp-derived CBD products beginning April...

Introduction The map of state-level hemp restrictions keeps expanding. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island have joined Ohio, Missouri, Texas, and others in moving to tighten restrictions on hemp-derived products — part of a nationwide trend of states aligning with or accelerating past the November 12, 2026 federal compliance deadline. For B2B...

Introduction The US Hemp Roundtable — one of the industry’s leading advocacy organizations — has put a number on the scope of the November 12, 2026 compliance cliff: 95%. That’s the estimated share of currently available hemp products that will not meet the new federal standard and will be prohibited...