The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to Mississippi’s near-total restriction on the advertising of medical marijuana.
Mississippi voters overwhelmingly approved medical marijuana in 2020, but the state tightly controls how the product can be promoted. The owner of a cannabis dispensary argued that violates his free speech rights.
Clarence Cocroft, owner of Tru Source Medical Cannabis, wants to advertise on four billboards he owns. Advertising is needed, he said, because his dispensary is tucked away in an industrial park where people aren’t likely to see it.
“I was hoping the Supreme Court would hear our case so my business could be treated just like any other legal business in the state of Mississippi,” Cocroft said in a statement.
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