In yet another example of the tough advertising restrictions that entrepreneurs face in the cannabis industry, Ballpark Holistic Dispensary, based in Denver, had a deal with the Metropolitan State University newspaper to run an advertisement, but the university’s lawyers shot it down.
The sale would have netted Met Media, the student-run multimedia news platform that houses The Metropolitan newspaper, $1,200 for a five-week run. MSU Denver’s legal team nixed the deal with concerns about the risk it posed to federal funding the school receives.
Associate Vice President of MSU Denver Student Engagement and Wellness, Braelin Pantel, conferred with MSU Denver’s legal team after they caught wind of the deal to see if running an ad for a marijuana dispensary violated federal law. Legal advised to extinguish the deal before the first ad could run.
“If we were to take money from the marijuana industry or promote marijuana through Met Media, which is essentially an entity through the university, that would be a violation of the federal law and that would not be okay,” Pantel said.
Stephanie Hopper, COO of Ballpark Holistic Dispensary
The Westword is the only place so far we’ve been successful in advertising. We can’t use billboards … We don’t even get to do everything that the liquor industry does even though Amendment 64 says we should be regulated like alcohol. We’re not.
Read Justin David Tate’s “Pot advertising snuffed from college paper”: http://mymetmedia.com/news/pot-advertising-snuffed-from-college-paper/
