{"id":30060,"date":"2026-07-01T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=30060"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T17:06:35","slug":"wednesday-update-341","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/wednesday-update-341\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s July 1, the day when a lot of newly-passed laws and ordinances go into effect &#8211; most notably in Memphis, the ban on THC and kratom products in smoke shops and convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p>Now, readers, I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230; &#8220;What about THC seltzers? Will we still be able to order &amp; drink them in bars?&#8221; Ever your faithful blogger\/journalist, I ventured out to a bar at 7:30 this morning to get an answer to your question.<\/p>\n<p>The bartender said<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are loopholes on top of loopholes in the new law<\/li>\n<li>Therefore, YES, bars can still sell THC seltzers<\/li>\n<li>The problem is the DISTRIBUTORS can no longer sell the seltzers to the bars<\/li>\n<li>So the bars will sell the seltzers until they run out of inventory&#8230; and then that&#8217;s it until the law changes again<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnews5.com\/video\/2026\/06\/30\/ceo-downtown-memphis-commission-outlines-safety-plan-independence-day-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis police and first responders will have a safety plan in place<\/a> for Downtown&#8217;s July 4 celebration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/amp\/Lifestyle\/wireStory\/scratching-bug-bite-feel-good-science-explains-bad-134268705?ck_subscriber_id=3201412392&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Elusive%20amusement%20park%20is%20free%20for%201%20day%20-%2022351089\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don&#8217;t scratch that &#8216;squito bite!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the short post. July 4 week is rarely newsy. Back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><span data-tt=\"{&quot;paragraphStyle&quot;:{&quot;alignment&quot;:4,&quot;writingDirection&quot;:1}}\"><em><strong>I gratefully accept tips:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s July 1, the day when a lot of newly-passed laws and ordinances go into effect &#8211; most notably in Memphis, the ban on THC and kratom products in smoke shops and convenience stores. Now, readers, I know what you&#8217;re thinking&#8230; &#8220;What about THC seltzers? Will we still be able to order &amp; drink them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/wednesday-update-341\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wednesday update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30062,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30060\/revisions\/30062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->