[vorpalhex]

You can't really eat cannabis can you? It's much more like alcohol and other vices.

It's not clear that the government should be terribly interested in helping cannabis. We can see why we want a regular food supply (and yes, that includes for animals) but it doesn't seem to be a government interest to make sure everyone can get high.

[mfrisbie]

Up until very recently there was plenty of federal support for tobacco farmers, and you can't eat that either.

If states are going to legalize and tax, then they're obligated to treat these businesses as legitimate - especially with respect to social equity programs that give priority to minority license applicants. If you're sending these licensees into a meat grinder, that's not social equity.

[vorpalhex]

They were insurance subsidies that were stopped a decade ago.

Just because New York runs an unconstitutional licensing scheme doesn't require the federal government to do anything. New York can bail out the people they gave a raw deal to.