Billboards advertising pot draw fire from lawmakers who want them banned from California highways

Soft Secrets
23 Dec 2016

Pot ads along highways? Lawmakers wrangle over legalization's consequences

Comedian Tommy Chong’s image grinned from a freeway billboard near Sacramento in recent months, promoting the counterculture icon’s brand of marijuana to passing motorists. But now a campaign has begun to outlaw such ads from all state highways, threatening to block entrepreneurs taking advantage of newly legalized pot in California from hawking their wares to a captive audience stuck in traffic. Read More: Source: Patrick McGreevyContact Reporter
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