Lessons From The Prohibition Era: How New Enforcement Presents Greater Legal Risk For Illicit Market Cannabis Businesses featured in Benzinga

Patrick Devine’s article in Benzinga examines the use of tax evasion as an enforcement strategy in the prohibition era and highlights the recent use of the strategy by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration to prosecute illegal cannabis businesses.  It then discusses potential federal enforcement in California as the DEA is in the early…