After all, a low pot is coming from Canada who has the best manufacturing and growers and this would screw Mexico's drug cartels (if those walls ever get built).Issues that operators face Politics aforementionedDifficult to get lending - some banks have an outright banIt's the wild wild west - similar to the Crowdfunding sites where companies are jockeying for dominance to be the eBay or Amazon of the spaceWays to Invest In Cannabis Repurposed industrial space to store inventory as well as growing CannabisBuy the ETF like MJGive an unsecured loan or invest in a Fund that funds operatorsInvest in a syndication/private placement

Cartel.

Ozarks is a great show, yes, but the cartel is not forcing you to build a casino so shut it off.

Depending on where you are sometimes cartels will do things like this to have a minimal paper trail especially if you are self managing. 

In Northern CA (the real northern CA) Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt counties with the hot weather and long seasons, there's plenty of cartels out in the forests growing, alongside legal growers now,  With growing pot becoming legal, many of those that once bought from others can now grown their own.

There is no cartel yet there is not a perfectly free market.

Further, much of the crime problems can be linked to illegal immigrants and drug cartels.

Then there is how the banking cartel portion of the federal reserve controls votes.

We're not in a free market, it's a market controlled by a private banking cartel, one in which if there was no debt, there would be no money in circulation.

This is bound to happen when a central cartel of bankers control the money supply and when the books cannot even be audited by congress.