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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.”

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

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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