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lapfog_1

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2. Nope.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Thu Jan 4, 2018, 06:37 PM

Jan 2018

Sends the DEA to arrest the owners of a few commercial grow houses and pot stores...

And he doesn't even have to go that far. The rescinding of the memo was enough to cause banks and investors to back away from legal cannabis sales.

That will disrupt a significant part of the legal pot industry.

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