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Medical marijuana ads on Vancouver radio prompt national agencies to pass to the left


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… Last month, [Justin] Wilcomes began pitching medicinal marijuana on-air for Eden Medicinal Society.

“I think there are people with a bee in their bonnets about it,” Wilcomes said. “As far as we know, we’re the only radio station in North America that does it.”

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If the ads bother anybody, good luck finding where to lodge a complaint. Various national agencies seem to treat it like a live grenade.

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The non-governmental Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has no policy against marijuana ads, but then no one has advertised marijuana before.

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