Jeff Sessions, with a stolid anti-marijuana stance, reminded the country that marijuana is still illegal, no matter what your state says, and he continues to look for ways to crack down on weed at the federal level.

He’s largely failed, as his scary sounding Justice Department dog pack has still failed to give him the ammunition he needs to take aim at state-level marijuana legislation, but it seems he’s not giving up, something he mentioned after a San Diego press conference.

“It doesn’t strike me that the country would be better if it’s being sold on every street corner. We do know that legalization results in greater use.”, says Sessions, ignoring that every reputable study coming in shows that cannabis legalization has no correlation whatsoever with increased consumption.

He, predictably, also failed to mention the lowered crime rates and increased tax revenue in states where marijuana has been legalized, whether medically, for recreational use, or both.

This kind of biased bluster, especially when it comes from a party that claims to support growing American businesses, signals the kind of thinking that holds back young cannabis shops, who still have trouble finding banking options and business services like credit card processing.

If these services were easier to access, the cannabis industry could only show more in the way of job growth, tax revenue, and economic support for the states that house them.

Help for these businesses is largely grass roots, with business services springing up specifically to cater to this large and needless hole in that market. With sites like www.cannafundr.com/ helping cannabis businesses find funding and http://cbdattorneys.com putting businesses and individuals in touch with specialized legal services, there’s a growth in marijuana and cannabis specific business beyond your neighborhood pot shop.

This innovation is the kind of American ingenuity and bootstrap growth the country is known for, but that goes unrecognized by old guard conservatives, who would laud a new factory or steel mill, but see no value in a generation that has created an entirely new, legal, industry using a crop grown and processed domestically and supported by US businesses and startups.

Could it be because it’s those same old men who moved their domestic operations overseas to save money, while railing about America becoming a service economy and crying over the lack of respect for the American farmer?