Report: The Concern About Big Marijuana May Have Inadvertently Encouraged Cronyism

by Tobias Coughlin-BogueBy trying to protect Washington's small local producers from Big Marijuana, regulators may have created a system that favors a handful of locally powerful incumbent players. VallaV/Shutterstock.com
Venerable DC think tank the Brookings Institution has weighed in on the weed world's favorite bogeyman: "Big Marijuana." Their findings? Big cannabusiness is no big deal, man.
The report, titled "Worry about bad marijuana—not Big Marijuana," isn't exactly news to anyone f