Congress should clear way for marijuana businesses to bank

If you ask any security consultant about one of the biggest physical security risks a business can take, high up on the list would be having huge piles of cash lying around. If you ask a business consultant what one of a small business’ biggest commercial risks might be, they would likely tell you that it’s not being able to get loans, financing, or even standard banking services to run their operations and collect customer payments. Yet even as a legal, regulated cannabis industry is growing wildly across the country — including now here in New York, America’s financial capital — we still sad...