Advertisements by state-licensed medical marijuana businesses in Mississippi don’t enjoy First Amendment free-speech protections.
That’s the takeaway, for now, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by a Black-owned MMJ dispensary that challenged Mississippi’s blanket ban on cannabis advertising.
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Clarence Cocroft, the owner and operator of Olive Branch, Mississippi-based Tru Source Medical Cannabis, first sued the state in 2023, seeking to overturn what might be the most restrictive rules on cannabis advertising in the United States.
Despite licensing hundreds of businesses since MMJ was legalized in the state in 2022, Mississippi forbids dispensaries and other businesses “from advertising and marketing in any media.”
That blanket ban reaches beyond billboards – which were at issue in Cocroft’s original
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