On top of the risk of federal prosecution, IRS targeting and asset seizure, cannabis entrepreneurs have to cope with the hazards of conducting a business that deals mostly in cash, since a
majority of traditional financial institutions — banks, credit card issuers, and payment transaction companies — won't provide services to the industry.
Only time will tell if this will result in greater economic inequality, or of the original tenants of «banking the unbanked» and creating a «parallel economy» outside of the dastardly
hands of traditional financial institutions will be upheld.