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Building A More Compliant Cannabis Industry With The Blockchain

PYMNTS

Though marijuana has been decriminalized for medical or recreational purposes in 29 states (and the District of Columbia) and 64 percent of the polled voting population supports marijuana’s legalization, pot remains very much illegal on the federal level as a Schedule 1 narcotic.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

Twenty months of my absence have allowed the “professional” top managers to kill the company using the money of rich oligarchs. Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs.

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Will The SAFE Banking Act Make Life Riskier For Banks?

PYMNTS

In fact, in the intervening 23 years, the situation has arguably gotten even more complex as 31 states (plus the District of Columbia) have legalized cannabis consumption for either legal or medical reasons. Plus, though it is mentioned less frequently, cash industries are notoriously hard to tax. High praise.

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