So while state-compliant marijuana businesses can hardly be considered “traffickers,” federal tax law still applies as if they were. “With [28] states and the District of Columbia now allowing some form of legal marijuana, 280E is applied to state-regulated cannabis businesses more often than it is to the types of illegal drug dealers that the provision was intended to penalize,” according to the National Cannabis Industry Association.
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