In the November 2022 elections, two new states legalized recreational Marijuana for people over 21 years. Maryland voted 67% approval. Missouri voted 53% approval. Billboard Insider’s take: This will mean more advertising dollars for the out of home industry in Maryland and Missouri. Expect to see regulations on where a […]
By Ken Klein, OAAA Executive Vice President, Government Affairs A sucker for lighthouses, I just visited one in Cambridge, MD, where the Choptank River meets Chesapeake Bay. Local boosters/history buffs note (inside the lighthouse) that watermen doubled as rumrunners during Prohibition. Prohibition (1920-1933), with its pervasive disrespect for law, didn’t […]
(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 […]
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. […]
Since I still haven’t taken down my Christmas tree or lights, despite my wife’s justifiable and persistent encouragement to do so, I suppose its not too late to offer my annual legal predictions for the outdoor advertising industry for 2020. I recently re-read my 3 Legal Predictions for 2019 published […]
The US Surgeon General has issued a warning to pregnant women and adolescents to stay away from marijuana, which has increased in potency. The last paragraph of the Surgeon General’s posted alert contains this interesting line: “Science-based messaging campaigns and targeted prevention programming are urgently needed to ensure that […]
By Nick Levi, OAAA Legislative Intern Try this for irony: without access to the banking system, some cannabis businesses rent old bank vaults to store cash. That was one example of cumbersome business practices in today’s marijuana industry, due to federal treatment of cannabis as an illegal and controlled substance […]
KIRO 7 reports that some citizens are threatening to boycott the Thurston County car repair business which sits below a billboard which is running a marijuana ad. The problem is that the owners of the auto shop aren’t the landowners. They simply rent the space as does Lamar which owns […]
By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA If CVS is selling cannabidiol products over the counter and Carl’s Jr has CBD burgers in Denver, then it must be okay to advertise, right? The promotion of new CBD products raises complex issues. In this report, I’ll explain CBD, how […]
