Together, she and her husband managed to open [emphasis added] a small storefront in Ephrata […]
This wasn’t a case of her ‘getting a job’; she and her husband literally started the business. There’s no fucking way you can reasonably start and run a marijuana business and not know that it’s still federally illegal. There’s no reasonable way to plead ignorance on this.
Oh so I can add: Applying for and getting a business license that says you can legally operate this business.
So back to: One of those things you think about after the fact, that one branch of govt says yes but a different branch of govt (which didn’t say no, they just didn’t say anything) might think hey that’s felony and will prevent you from getting citizenship. Actually multiple branches of govt said yes, local says where you can operate stores, state says you can operate that business, etc.
This wasn’t a case of her ‘getting a job’; she and her husband literally started the business. There’s no fucking way you can reasonably start and run a marijuana business and not know that it’s still federally illegal. There’s no reasonable way to plead ignorance on this.
Oh so I can add: Applying for and getting a business license that says you can legally operate this business.
So back to: One of those things you think about after the fact, that one branch of govt says yes but a different branch of govt (which didn’t say no, they just didn’t say anything) might think hey that’s felony and will prevent you from getting citizenship. Actually multiple branches of govt said yes, local says where you can operate stores, state says you can operate that business, etc.