Too Many To Count: Federal and State Cannabis Commerce Conflicts

Map of Marijuana laws by US State

While attending a meeting on Capitol Hill with legislators and their staff on the myriad of over twenty proposed cannabis law reform legislation pending before Congress, a youngish legislative aide viewing a spreadsheet of all the varying bills, whilst listening to all of the talk of effectively nothing passing in this Congress, looked up dazed at everyone and suggested that ‘this potpourri of piecemeal legislation can’t really be passed without trying to address the underlying issue: federal prohibition statutes and guidelines’.

Yep, you got it Skippy!

Even though the momentum in the US to end cannabis prohibition continues to pick up steam, notably at the state level, the list of federal vs. state conflicts that are being wrung out of at the end of the cannabis prohibition epoch are truly manifest:

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