“The marijuana industry and Uncle Sam haven’t been on the same page for 80 years, but these days, in a unique bit of weirdness, it’s not the U.S. Department of Justice that could create a problem for pot growers: It’s the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC regulates the country’s electronic communications, which is relevant because it turns out that, bizarrely, light ballasts used in the growing of cannabis emit radio-frequency interference that screws up amateur-radio transmissions being sent by local ham operators, a licensed, legally protected practice.“
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