Federal banking rules make funding Md. cannabis industry tricky
鈥淏usinesses use bank accounts to hold their money to pay for things just like we do as individuals,鈥 said Zo毛 Plakias, an agricultural economist and professor at Western Washington University and Ohio State University who has done research on cannabis industry banking. 鈥淚t turns out that many cannabis businesses have a very hard time just getting a bank account.鈥