Earlier this year, the City Council of Oakland, California, voted to issue permits for industrial-scale medical marijuana farms. Four hydroponic warehouses, each holding some 30,000 cannabis plants, are expected to yield the city between $4.8 and $7.7 million per year in tax revenues.

City boosters hope the farms will help re-brand this rusting port city as a capital of all things cannabis, an “Oaksterdam” with its own brands of pot-related products and tourist destinations. But there’s a hitch, California Watch reports, and it involves the federal government.

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