Will Health Canada crack down on pot-shop ads?
When the program guide for the Vancouver International Jazz Festival came out this past June, it included advertisements for four dispensaries that illegally sell marijuana. The dispensaries are among the hundred or so pot shops that have opened up throughout the city in the past several years.
Soon after Health Canada caught wind of the ads, the department contacted festival organizers and demanded the ads be pulled from both the online and print versions of the guide. A spokesman for Health Canada told the media that any business promoting the sale of marijuana could face a maximum penalty of $5-million, two years in prison, or both. The organizers, unaware they were illegal, immediately complied.
Prompted by complaints from citizens, Health Canada investigated the dispensary ads in the jazz festival guide and asked local radio station CKNW to pull spots featuring one of its hosts promoting one of the city’s pot-shop...
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