There are a lot of things most people don't understand about legal cannabis in the U.S.

For example, did you know...

• Weed's Still Not "Really" Legal: While 38 states have some sort of medical or recreational access, federally, it's a controlled substance, and everyone in the industry commits felonies daily.

• Payment Processors Hate Us: Cannabis companies want to take your credit card payment, they just have no (easy) way to do so. Most cannabis entrepreneurs are forced to use cash or peer-to-peer payments instead of merchant services like Stripe and Square because cannabis is still "high risk" for financial institutions.

• Adults Want To Have Fun, Too: Many markets prohibit designs that could appear "fun" as they might attract children. This ignores the obvious inner child in every adult, and has created a grey area of interpretation on "adult" cartoons and graphics whose enforcement varies. (It's also what off-market brands capitalize on as they aren't subject to licensing agencies)

• Plant Counts Make No Sense: To many, limiting the size of a garden seems like a good way to minimize unregulated supply. In reality, 1 plant can net you pounds of weed under the right conditions. (Most smaller plants do not yield this much, but arbitrary plant limits do not inherently limit supply).

For anyone in and around the legal industry, this stuff is common knowledge.

But to those who haven't lived "a day in the life" in cannabis, some of these might come as a shock.

But it gets worse:

Legal weed doesn't mean "legal to grow your own".

Markets like New Jersey paved the way for legal-to-buy-not-to-grow laws. In fact, only 21 of the states with legal access allow you to grow your own cannabis.

Crazy, right?