05/16/2025
🔴UPDATE 🔴
All flower will haves to be removed prior to July 1 due to the latest statements by the State AG we will keep everyone updated.
🟢H**P UPDATE:🟢
Access Is NOT Gone — But Time Is Ticking
🟢 TL;DR Version is available under this post.
Hey Tasty Haze Fam,
We’ve heard your questions, concerns, and confusion and we’ve held off on speaking publicly until we had enough clarity to address something this impactful with confidence.
✅ Your access is NOT gone yet.
❗ But January 1st, 2026 is the date to watch. That’s when new laws around h**p-derived products including flower, gummies, drinks, and more are set to be enforced in Alabama.
We’ve got work to do before then, and we are actively doing it.
🏛️ What We Learned at the Capitol
We spent a lot of time at the Statehouse this session, meeting directly with lawmakers, enforcement officials, and staff. Here’s what we heard loud and clear:
• Law enforcement is overwhelmed. Officers on the ground cannot distinguish legal h**p flower from illegal cannabis—and without tools, they’re forced to assume the worst.
• Packaging is a disaster. Products showing up in clear bags with no labels, no batch info, no test results, and zero traceability are making it easy for critics to dismiss the entire industry.
• Testing documentation is unreliable. Many products lacked valid Certificates of Analysis (COAs) or used faked or suspicious ones—with mismatched fonts, missing fields, or fake lab data.
• Synthetic compounds are showing up. The state forensics team reported finding non-cannabinoid-derived synthetics in seized products, raising major red flags.
• There's internal dysfunction. Misalignment between key legislators and conflicting advocacy groups inside the Capitol has made collaboration and progress far more difficult.
We’ve said it since Day 1: it’s not enough to slap a QR code on a bag. Our store has always worked to educate you on how to verify labs, how to check if the product was even tested, and how to stay informed. But not every shop does that.
*From our perspective the infancy and disorganization of our industry within the state was the cause of such drastic action. The risk now is who is unloading products on consumers to close up shop and who is here to continue to adapt and help prevent us from being eradicated.*
💬 So Where Are We Now?
We’re still here. And we’re not giving up.
Tasty Haze is working closely with our state advocacy groups and key legislators to push toward fair and ethical policy in 2026.
There are still paths to protect the future of this industry and your access to the products you rely on. But it starts with how the industry shows up and how you, the customer, choose to support it.
🍬 About High-Dose Edibles & Drinks/Slushies
We will never advocate for arbitrary dose caps. Everyone’s cannabinoid system is different. Genetics, medical needs, and personal history all play a role along with tolerance.
But not everyone has experience.
• About 11% of Americans have never left their home state.
• That’s roughly 550,000 Alabamians who may have no exposure to cannabis norms. (Take account of all the I go to PCB every year and I am positive thats dramaticly higher of a number.)
• Some individuals tried a product and ended up in the ER, called poison control, or lost their job because they were couch locked for 3 days. We’re not suggesting these situations were life-threatening most of us have experienced a “green out” at some point. But in their moment, it felt like a serious health emergency. And unfortunately, those incidents were logged and counted against us as an industry.
Some shops gave out high-dose products with zero guidance, no packaging standards, no education. You may laugh at that outcome, but those people didn’t know better. And many trusted the wrong retailers.
This is how narratives form. This is how we all lose access.
🧠 Common-Sense Fixes Start at the Register
We’re calling it out directly:
Spend your money with stores that actually give a damn.
If they weren’t following basic compliance yesterday, it’s time to find a store that’s part of the fight.
There are hundreds of other reputable stores like us across Alabama who are working every day to prove this industry can regulate itself before the state wipes it out.
🧾 Introducing H.E.L.P. — Our New Safety & Tracking System
We’ve built and are now rolling out our beta test for H.E.L.P., the H**p Evidence & Labeling Protocol:
a fully trackable product label seal and system designed to set a new standard for h**p products & vendor accountability in Alabama.
✔️ What H.E.L.P. does:
• Connects each product directly to verified lab results
• Applies serialized tracking seals (we are starting with our Raw Flower products)
• Uses tamper-evident packaging that visibly marks once opened
• Ties every unit to your receipt and product in hand
🛡️ This won’t just apply to Tasty Haze-branded products.
We’re expanding the H.E.L.P. system across every product we sell, including non–Tasty Haze brands, to ensure full transparency, compliance, and consumer trust.
Once the tamper-proof label is removed, the package will display a clear “tampered” imprint. From that point on, you are responsible for how it’s handled.
(This might not matter if we lose this fight but we’re implementing it now to prove responsible use and collect real-world data we can bring directly to lawmakers.)
We’ve been building H.E.L.P. since last year not just to stay ahead of the problem, but to offer a real, replicable model for h**p compliance in Alabama.
Our goal is to take H.E.L.P. directly to the legislators that we did not get to see during this year’s session in their districts during the off-season and demonstrate that smart, sensibly governed h**p commerce can not only work—BUT THRIVE—in this state.
We will be offering the software solution side to other shops for free once we get through our testing phase
🗳️ What Happens Next Is Up to ALL of Us
If the industry can prove responsibility with correct litigation and advocacy, these products won’t stay off shelves long or at all.
But that won’t happen unless:
✅ You start voting with your dollars
✅ You support compliant, responsible retailers
✅ You call your legislators and respectfully tell them your story
✅ You reach out to Governor Ivey’s office and your district reps—daily if you have to
Online sales will be gone under this bill.
Excise taxes have been added.
The curated products you love your flower, your gummies, your drinks, your lotions they’re on the line.
👉 Support local shops that are fighting. Be an advocate. Talk to your lawmakers.
Our team alongside many others are doing the work, and we won’t stop until there’s a path forward for ALL of us.
Much love,
— The Tasty Haze Team
