Colorado medical-pot lobby seeks Denver ban on industry's outdoor ads
Colorado's main medical-marijuana lobby is pushing Denver's City Council to ban outdoor advertising, such as billboards and sign-flippers, for such businesses across the city in an effort to further legitimize the industry.
"We see this as a necessary step to clean up the industry," said Michael Elliott of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association representing more than 50 businesses. "The justification for a complete ban of outdoor advertising (for medical marijuana) is to prevent the encouragement of nonqualifying patients to use" the product.
The council is considering a bill to outlaw outdoor advertising for medical-marijuana centers 1,000 feet from schools, day-care centers, parks and recreation centers. But council members may look at a citywide ban instead.
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_20588186/colorado-medical-pot-lobby-seeks-denver-ban-industrys
I was a little confused about this when I first read it... I could not recall any outdoor ads since I've been here. Near the end of the article they get to what they are really talking about... Sign spinners:
"He showed a photo of a sign-spinner spotted Wednesday morning at West 44th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard, saying that kind of advertising hurts the legitimacy of the business."
I expect sign spinners are used in other cities but I've never seen them used as often as they are here in Denver... They are everywhere (heh, watching them train in parks is pretty funny). I really don't like the idea of banning them just for MMJ, if they are going to restrict them, do it across the board, otherwise let any business use them.