BTW, it isn't just marijuana, the US banking system give the federal government veto power over practically anything. I'm not a fan of cryptocurrency, but I'm very sympathetic to the effort to create some kind of an end-around. You think when the SCOTUS overturns Row, it will actually be up to the states to decide? Just wait until abortion providers aren't allowed to use fucking banks.
The government and the nationally chartered banks are methodically removing any ability for people to conduct private business anymore. This is done ostensibly to prevent funding of terrorism and human trafficking, but it's really just to control people.
That's a stretch.
The federal government -- Congress -- passes laws or statutes. Charter statutes enable formation of cabinet agencies. Cabinet agencies always have an "Office of General Counsel" which reads the law enabling program expenditures with clear goals and missions, to apply the most reasonable interpretation. The Office of General Counsel drafts regulations, not necessarily restrictions on citizens, which define what the agencies must do and in some ways how they should do it. Political appointees either approve or promote by themselves organization or re-organization plans consistent with the charter statute and all other relevant statutes, and the agencies are then staffed by their individual personnel office under OPM guidance -- other "regulations". Jobs with specific non-political education and skill requirements are posted.
Used to be that I could taste the air in So Cal faster than I could breathe it, like sour milk. Used to be that a metal-plating company -- small business -- could dump their hexavalent chromium and other incarnations into the groundwater. Used to be that people got cancer and kids died.
Not now. Maybe after the Asshole gets a second term. Then -- we'll all be assholes, won't we?
Non-enforcement, as was done during Obama, is a band-aid. They need to remove Cannabis from the schedule of substances that defines them as illegal. And again -- there would be changes and reform of everything from banking laws and regulations relevant to FDA or USDA (or other).
The "Line in the Sand" between Progressives and Reactionaries will contest the limits of what can be done in the day-to-day management of those agencies. The intent of Congress under the Constitution and their production of laws and changes to laws, their committee oversight and other responsibilities, should not be subverted by short-circuiting Congress and introducing termites, parasites and cannibals into the agencies to damage them, harm morale or otherwise obstruct the ongoing implementation of the decisions by Congress and therefore the People.
You want to eliminate the EPA? Get Congress to eliminate the EPA! But I have digressed from our topics of Sativa, Indica, CBD, hashish, BC Bud and other substances made legal by states. Even the states are still feeling their way toward better defining other regulatory factors that make recreational sale and use viable and acceptable.
Personally, I should've more boldly entered that industry when it was infant, maybe 15 or 20 years ago. But I would've been equally focused on retaining legal counsel in addition to hiring people for security, if I wanted to survive in my business. So why not just grow it for personal use among the tomatoes in my garden?