Cannabis has been a big buyer of out of home advertising. You might want to have your out of home credit manager keep close watch on your cannabis clients. Wholesale Cannabis prices declined by an average of 27% in 2022 due to an increase in legal cannabis outlets. There are […]
Earlier this week Texas out of home attorney Richard Rothfelder reviewed the legality of taxing billboards based on earnings. California out of home attorney Richard Hamlin tells Billboard Insider California property taxes can’t be based on a billboard’s income. California property taxes must be based on real property. They may […]
Many cities require you to takedown a certain number of square feet of billboard advertising in order to construct a new static billboard or in order to be able to convert a static billboard into a digital billboard. Today out of home development expert Andy Goodman talks about takedown ratios. […]
It appears that any hopes of allowing cannabis advertising alongside California highways has come to an end with California Governor Gavin Newson vetoing AB-1302 which would have allowed marijuana ads on billboards along interstate freeways and state highways that cross state borders, except within 15 miles of another state. In […]
There are competing bills in the California legislature to ban cannabis billboard advertising on California state highways or freeways. See Billboard Ban is the latest marketing hurdle for California cannabis firms. Looks to Insider like the Arizona legislature adjourned without passing HB 2809 which would have prohibited cannabis advertising within […]
By Richard Hamlin, Hamlin Cody California’s Bureau of Cannabis Control allowed cannabis advertising on interstate highways if at least fifteen miles from the state’s border. In late November 2020, a judge in San Luis Obispo ruled that the regulation was illegal. The court formally entered its judgment on January 11, […]
(Part 1, yesterday, Richard Hamlin described a court decision banning all marijuana advertising on Interstate Highways within California and on State Highways that cross its border. The decision struck down a regulation that banned such advertising only within 15 miles of the state’s border. The decision found the regulation to […]
Insider reported last week on a court ruling that billboards advertising marijuana will no longer be allowed along California highways. To get a better sense of what comes next, we asked Richard Hamlin of Hamlin Cody, a California based law firm, to provide his perspective. Background: When California legalized marijuana […]
A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that billboards advertising marijuana will no longer be allowed along California highways. Judge Ginger Garrett ruled against the California Bureau of Cannabis Control striking down a 2019 regulation it had adopted that allowed for the advertising of cannabis on […]
Yesterday’s election has two implications for out of home. Four more states – Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota – legalized recreational marijuana and Mississippi approved medical marijuana. This means more marijuana advertising dollars for the out of home companies in those states. 15 states have legalized recreational marijuana. […]
