Cannabis Businesses Working With Banks In Colorado

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado's cannabis industry has had a chief request since marijuana was legalized: Give us access to banks. But it turns out that hundreds of the state's pot businesses are already working with financial institutions under the close watch of federal regulators, even though marijuana remains illegal at the federal level. As many as 35 banks and credit unions offer services to the industry that has made $6.5 billion in sales in Colorado since 2014, according to the Colorado Banker...