Felony, Inc.: How Selective Prohibition Became the Most Valuable Asset in Legal Cannabis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798188241155)

The crime every cannabis company promises to end may also be the fence protecting its most valuable territory.

A licensed cannabis seller can be legal under state law and a federal trafficker on its tax return. It can be denied ordinary deductions, banking access, and bankruptcy protection-then gain value from a state license cap, a protected intrastate market, a home-grow limit, or a local veto.

Felony, Inc. follows the documents where the contradiction becomes visible: punishing tax returns, license lotteries, statehouse lobbying records, campaign accounts, corporate filings, hemp restrictions, and plans for the day interstate commerce arrives. Scott Gamble traces how federal prohibition and state legalization work together to determine who may cultivate, move, sell, finance, or profit from cannabis.

This is not a story about a secret master plan. It is a documentary narrative about incentives, scarcity, and the order in which legal walls come down. A rule can damage every licensed operator and still protect incumbents from their next competitor. A reform can expand freedom while transferring the scarcity premium somewhere else. The plant is reproducible. Permission to touch it for profit is scarce.

Author: Scott Gamble
ISBN-13: 9798188241155
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/20/2026
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d