CBS Refused to Air a Medical Marijuana Ad During the Super Bowl
  • 5 years ago
You won't be seeing any medical marijuana ads during Super Bowl LIII. Pepsi? It rots your stomach, but sure. Budweiser? Rots your liver, but it wouldn't be the Super Bowl without it. But at least for this year, medical marijuana got a hard no.

A cannabis company called Acreage Holdings that counts John Boehner—yeah, that John Boehner—as one of its board members submitted storyboards for an ad about medical marijuana to CBS to run during commercial breaks. In return, Acreage Holdings said it received a rejection email saying, "CBS will not be accepting any ads for medical marijuana at this time."
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