| Contents |
Introduction -- Supply and demand -- Federal laws vs. state vs. local control -- Lobbyists and lawyers -- Going to market : cultivation, testing, manufacturing, production, and retail -- Banking and financial implications -- State by state, nation by nation -- Taxation and ramifications -- Picks and shovels : ancillary and support industry -- The future of cannabis -- Notes -- Index. |
| Abstract |
This book explores the contradictions present within the cannabis industry from a business and policy perspective. |
| Abstract |
"Despite the unique culture surrounding cannabis, this new industry follows the same economic principles as does any other agricultural product--that is, it would if the federal government allowed it to. Four distinct challenges prevent the cannabis industry from becoming fully legal and federally regulated in the United States, equivalent to the alcohol, pharmaceutical, or tobacco industries: federal regulations counter to state laws, an unfriendly financial system, a U.S. attorney general bent on keeping the drug war running, and Prohibition's 70-year-old legacy of distrust between legalization advocates and opponents. Policy, however, is changing. Already the world's most heavily consumed illicit drug is in the midst of an international transformation. Globally, a new international trade market has emerged from efforts to legalize it for medical or recreational use, and in the United States, the nascent cannabis industry has acquired lobbyists, well-financed industry kingpins, an extensive ancillary industry, and taxation. The Business of Cannabis explores these issues in depth and contextualizes U.S. drug policy at a time when lawmakers across the nation are deciding which way to lean on the issue."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Summers, D.J. Business of cannabis. 1 Edition. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2018] 9781440857867 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018005548 |
| ISBN | 9781440857874 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 1440857873 |
| ISBN | (hard copy ; alk. paper) |
| Stock number | 626FAF94-5DE8-4F81-9D24-7D3820FF3250 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
