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The bitcoin payment processors are black balling the marijuana industry just like banks.
Got a link for that?
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/01/14/bitpay-says-legal-marijuana-dispensary-washington-unable-offer-services-businesses-sell-drugs/
You may have misread. This is not speaking about the whole bitcoin industry, rather just BitPay.
"BitPay has a tenuous relationship with the banks that it works with due to their heavy involvement [heavier than any other company in the entire world] in Bitcoin and fiat. In order for BitPay to maintain the contracts and relationships that they have developed [ties that got Tony Gallippi in front of the United States Senate Committees during Bitcoin's Capitol Hill debut] BitPay must play nice with banks."