Marijuana Ads Dumped By BART
| And you can forget about advertising on BART, too... |
"Upon further examination, we have decided we are going to reject the ads, because they don't meet our board policy," says BART spokesman Linton Johnson.
"The material that is submitted to be advertised on BART must follow all the rules and laws of the land. While marijuana has been decriminalized in California, it's still a crime in the eyes of the federal government."
BART ran 17 posters for medical marijuana evaluation in summer of 2009. But officials now feel that pot ads violate the following stipulation of BART's ad policy:
Johnson said that BART could still accept an ad for medical marijuana -- but only if that ad didn't "encourage, or appear to encourage, the use or possession of unlawful or illegal goods or services." Since BART considers medical marijuana illegal, and since an ad that doesn't somehow encourage use of its product or service would be nonsensical, it's hard to see how this would work. "I don't see such a scenario," Johnson said.
That means pot impresario Kevin Reed, whose ad for medical marijuana delivery has been accepted by Muni, will have to consider alternatives to BART if he wants to spread his message to the bridge and tunnel crowd.
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