Despite its growing legality in different states across the country, the federal government’s prohibition on marijuana makes working in the budding industry a little more difficult, a panel of attorneys who work with marijuana companies said at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas.

The risk and difficulty of helping to grow and operate a legal marijuana business became more apparent recently when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Obama-era “Cole Memo.”

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