{"id":20906,"date":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wyd.simplifya.com\/news\/facing-federal-hostility-cannabis-merchants-eye-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T00:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:42:40","slug":"facing-federal-hostility-cannabis-merchants-eye-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifya.com\/news\/facing-federal-hostility-cannabis-merchants-eye-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Facing\u00a0federal\u00a0hostility,\u00a0cannabis\u00a0merchants\u00a0eye\u00a0bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">Facing federal hostility, cannabis merchants eye\u00a0bitcoin<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cannabis merchants and payment processors face hurtles on the road to legitimacy due to regulatory challenges and uncertainties posed by a new presidential administration. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions voiced his opposition to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in a May 1, 2017, letter to Congress. Enacted in 2014 as part of a larger budgetary bill, the amendment protects state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries from being prosecuted by the Department of Justice, a grave mistake according to Sessions.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; position: relative; z-index: 2; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensheet.com\/breakingnews.php?flag=breaking_news&#038;id=1851\" title=\"Facing\u00a0federal\u00a0hostility,\u00a0cannabis\u00a0merchants\u00a0eye\u00a0bitcoin\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing federal hostility, cannabis merchants eye\u00a0bitcoin Cannabis merchants and payment processors face hurtles on the road to legitimacy due to regulatory challenges and uncertainties posed by a new presidential administration. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions voiced his opposition to the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment in a May 1, 2017, letter to Congress. 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