Dotan Y. Melech is CEO at CTrust, the first credit-scoring and credit-monitoring agency for cannabis businesses. Given the limitations created by federal prohibition, Melech has facilitated receivership, reorganization, and liquidation for many businesses that could have been candidates for Chapter 11 had they not been working in cannabis, including the first and largest receivership in the history of the industry.
New investment in the cannabis industry has slowed due to a combination of stifling regulations, economic uncertainty, lack of access to capital, and restrictive...