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Two dozen checking accounts.

That's the number of accounts that banks and credit unions have closed once they discovered Kristi Kelly, founder of the Good Meds Network and board member for The Fourth Corner Credit Union, was associated with Colorado's newly-legalized cannabis industry.

That's the number of times access to traditional financial services has been yanked away from those who chose to participate in an industry that a majority of voters approved in 2012.

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