With weed illegal at the federal level small businesses are unable to get the standard financing loans/grants opportunities they usually have through traditional banking.

The only groups with large amounts of money are going to be corporations who made their money off of legal weed in other states or international organizations from Canada that have access to traditional financial instruments.

No state entity is going to have the reserves to prop up a small business cannabis ecosystem by itself.

Just kind of a lose/lose , I know the push for legal weed at the federal level has slowed down since a ton of states have it now but these are the tangible repercussions of the state/federal lag.