An adult-use marijuana retailer is suing the Vermont Cannabis Control Board over advertising regulations the company alleges are unconstitutional.
According to the Bennington Banner, Flora Cannabis in Middlebury said in a lawsuit filed Monday in the Addison Superior Court’s Civil Division that it wants to remove Vermont’s “unprecedented and unconstitutional restrictions on the protected free speech rights of the state’s 500-plus licensed cannabis cultivators, manufacturers, distributors and retailers.”
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The Vermont Cannabis Control Board requires that all cannabis advertisements include a health warning and that no more than 15% of people potentially exposed to such ads are younger than 21.
Flora Cannabis’ complaint claims that those requirements are “unreasonable,” as are prohibitions on “common promotional offers” and “depicting or describing particular cannabis products
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