Conservatives are not the only ones that have been flagged by the Internal Revenue Service for further review after asking for tax-exempt status -- just ask those in the marijuana industry. While many Americans first learned of the IRS’s scrutiny of political organizations with the discovery that several groups that had “tea party” or “patriot” in
Long Before The Tea Party, Medical Marijuana Groups Were Targeted By The IRS
The drug’s illegal status on the federal level prompts the IRS to treat all marijuana-related businesses as “drug trafficking organizations.”