Make sense to me. 
About as much sense as classifying marijuana as a Schedule 1 narcotic. Buy a gun, load it up, then light yourself up with about six pints of bourbon and go around shooting at things and dredging up old grievances – no problem at all! But take a puff of MJ and feel a sudden inclination to listen to Pink Floyd – that’s just a tragedy waiting to happen! 
Maybe that’s why I began by saying:
Wonder how many poor schmucks get busted in National parks for whatever, and find a federal MJ charge added in.
I’ve been wondering recently what all these dispensaries have been doing about their banking. Seems a potential mess.
I always tell people from Ohio to leave the packaging in Michigan or its an easy bust for the cops in Ohio to claim you are an interstate trafficker. But no, they want to show their friends the THC content and how much tax they paid. Idiots.
Cannabis, perhaps?
Cannibus is what cannibals smoke after a good meal.
Cannedabyss is where you find yourself when you’ve done too much cannabis.
While riding on the cannibus.
I don’t think anyone grows weed commercially outdoors anymore (at least for the legal market). Hydroponics are much more efficient.
Anyway, for those of you who choose to indulge, stay safe and don’t get cannabusted!
There’s also the problem of stray pollen in an outdoor grow. Nobody wants to grow seeded weed (unless you are growing for seed, and even then you likely use a single male plant and hand-apply pollen to the females).
Why would that matter? Ohio can’t charge anyone with interstate trafficking, only the Feds can do that.
When its packaged in small amounts they can charge you with being a dealer if they choose. If you have a 100g in a large bag, no big deal, personal use. When you have 100g broken down into several smaller bags, dealer. Most people come back with an assortment of “flavors” and a large enough amount to make the trip worthwhile.
But its more risk management, why take the risk. I know people that take back like multiple bags of 500g of weed on a regular basis with no issues. But I haven’t actually heard of the cops harrassing anyone. But Ohio used to do this with alcohol sales in Indiana. They would sit across the boarder and watch people in Indiana pick up liquor a the state line store and bust them when they came back.
Or indoors.
That said, there are huge outdoor grows all over my area if a greenhouse out in the open using natural lighting counts as outdoor. You can smell it driving along the freeway.
It has been 10 years, but I used to know a guy (very close friend of one of my closest friends) who had a pretty sizable operation, growing VERY high quality weed outside in Michigan. Our paths have diverged, but I’ve often wondered how his fortunes were effected by recent legalization.
If the states are collecting taxes on legalized cannabis, are they not (in Federal terms) profiting from criminal activity, and therefore laundering money?
I’ve been reading the thread, but I still don’t think the OP has been answered in terms of how states can make licit things that federal law makes illicit.
There are many places in Detroit that sell unlicensed weed with no taxes paid. He is likely doing well and could be trying to get a license to sell to the state while he continues to supply the underground market.
Technically, they haven’t. It’s still illegal under federal law. It’s just that the federal drug enforcers are not enforcing the law, at least not against people within the states’ organized marijuana industry.
However, note that not all marijuana producers are part of their state’s industry. There’s lots of growers in states like California and Oregon who are producing it for export to states where it’s completely illegal. Or for the black market in states with high MJ taxes. Those guys are sometimes busted, even though they’re in a state with legal recreational marijuana.
The DEA got really pissy when Oregon told them (back before we legalized recreational but had medical legal on the books) that the state authorities would no longer participate in any enforcement activities that had to do with cannabis. Basically we told them if they wanna bust someone in the pot industry they would have to fund and find personnel to manage the operation 100% because the state would not lend any resources to help out. The DEA really relies on foot soldiers from local jurisdictions to help out so basically Oregon made it impossible for the DEA to do any federal enforcement in the state. We’ll still help out with meth labs, though, no problem.
ETA:
Things are going to get really interesting now that the FBI has relaxed its stance on hiring people who admit to having smoked weed in the past. Somebody somewhere is going to challenge on the basis that if a gun toting FBI agent has smoked pot and that’s okay then it’s equally okay for Joe Citizen-Weedtoker to own firearms as well.
What would really make sense is for the cannabis industry on the Left Coast to form a credit union. If Microsoft can do it, so can the weed growers and sellers.
I feel like that would be asking for the feds to get involved. Particularly if it operates interstate. Even if it just comes down to going after the money.