Growing marijuana industry rarely able to use traditional banking, insurance

It didn't take long for Andy Joseph, CEO of a Johnstown-based company that gets the bulk of its business from marijuana companies, to realize that he had to come up with another way to get paid. A customer had ordered a $100,000 piece of equipment from his business, Apeks Supercritical, and came to pay him — in cash and at a barn behind his home in Johnstown where he ran his business at the time.