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This wasn't a case of her 'getting a job'; she and her husband literally started the business. There's no fucking way you can reasonably start and run a marijuana business and not know that it's still federally illegal. There's no reasonable way to plead ignorance on this.
Oh so I can add: Applying for and getting a business license that says you can legally operate this business.
So back to: One of those things you think about after the fact, that one branch of govt says yes but a different branch of govt (which didn't say no, they just didn't say anything) might think hey that's felony and will prevent you from getting citizenship. Actually multiple branches of govt said yes, local says where you can operate stores, state says you can operate that business, etc.
If you don't understand the core nature of the business you yourself are starting, then you shouldn't be starting that business. That business license was probably granted by the state, not the federal government. And just because the state didn't say, "hey, you might want to think this through" doesn't mean she shouldn't think things through.
I guarantee you she knew what the federal laws were in a rough sense and likely knew EXACTLY what the federal laws were. One of the most common questions customers are going to ask employees of a legal weed place is whether this is legal.
There's just such a huge difference between getting a job in an industry and starting a business in an industry. She probably had to build a business plan to get a loan to start the company, and that is when she should have been researching the legalities of what she was doing. She probably had to consult a tax attorney to get her company's books in order, and that is another time when she should have been asking about federal legality.