Federal Policy, Taxes & The Fight For Control: Cannabis Industry Is Growing Up Fast
The cannabis industry spent decades fighting for legitimacy. Now it must learn to operate inside legitimacy.
For decades, the cannabis industry fought one battle:
Legalization.
Today, it faces a much harder one:
Institutionalization.
The latest developments in the cannabis space paint a picture of an industry entering a new phase—one where the biggest threats and opportunities are no longer coming from activists or ballot initiatives, but from:
Federal regulators
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