May 14, 2024 — For the six years they’ve been in business, Torabi and her two sisters have operated Restart, their hemp dispensary, in a modest neighborhood in North Austin within an entirely lawful framework — evolving as the laws changed, and staying comfortably and legally off the radar of state lawmakers who authorized the sale of consumable hemp in Texas in 2019.
June 18, 2024 —Products containing cannabis-derivatives Delta 8 and Delta 9 have been growing in popularity in Texas, despite an anticipated effort by state lawmakers to ban them next year. Cannabis entrepreneur Shayda Torabi discusses the industry in the latest episode of the Texas Business Minds podcast.
October-September, 2024 Issue — It was high time someone created a low-dose cannabis seltzer, and local company RESTART CBD knocked it out of the park.
October-September, 2024 Issue — While a majority of retailers already require customers to be 21 or older, there’s no official age policy for hemp-derived products in Texas. “We hear the state and share the same concerns,” says Shayda Torabi, founder of RESTART and president of the Texas Hemp Coalition. “We are very pro regulation, not elimination.”