Cannabis Conflict: States, Not Feds, Control The Fate Of Marijuana Law And Policy

The National Council of State Legislatures' call last week for marijuana to be de-scheduled is a harbinger of things to come.

 

 

 

Last week, the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) adopted a formal resolution that Congress enable financial institutions to serve marijuana businesses. The forcefulness of the resolution is a first from a cannabis angle: it did not ask Congress to pass a banking bill specific to cannabis, or even to revisit the FinCEN guidelines for financial…

 

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