Can States Police Their Own Pot Markets?

WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 27: U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) listens during a news briefing after a House Republican Caucus meeting October 27, 2015 at the Capitol in Washington, DC. Congressional leaders had reached to an agreement with the White House to raise domestic and defense spending and lift the debt limit until March 2017. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Five years into the state experiments with legal recreational marijuana, it’s becoming harder to believe states can capably enforce their own marijuana laws. Two recent examples help to illustrate why:

As part of an effort to support smaller, homegrown cannabis businesses, Massachusetts doesn’t allow any company to control more than three recreational dispensary licenses. However, in March, the 

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