Marijuana bank ban leads to concerns about going all cash

Depending on who you ask on the streets of Denver, sales of cannabis are now king in Colorado, at least to alcohol.

The problem is it is an all cash business because the feds consider marijuana money bad news.

Nicole Surina said she loves almost everything about Colorado's legal marijuana marketplace.

"Being able to do it in your own home and not having to worry about it is a great feeling," she said.

What's not a great feeling is trying to use a credit card to pay for pot and then being denied.

"It's an issue. So we have an all cash business," Andy Williams said.
Williams runs Medicine Man, the retail pot shop where Surina used cash to buy a product Colorado considers legal.

She had to pay in cash because marijuana remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government, which makes credit card companies and banks...

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