Federal Appeals Court Upholds Mississippi Ban on Medical Cannabis Advertising
A federal appeals court docket final week upheld Mississippi’s ban on medical hashish promoting concluding that the prohibition does “not offend the First Modification” of the U.S. Structure. Within the ruling, the fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals cites hashish’ Schedule I standing below the Managed Substances Act (CSA) and rejects the plaintiff’s argument that hashish is “successfully authorized” on the federal degree.
The problem was filed by Clarence Cocroft, the proprietor of the Olive Department-based Tru Supply Medical Hashish who, in a press release following the choice, mentioned that he stays “dedicated to persevering with this battle so my enterprise might be handled the identical as another authorized enterprise in Mississippi.”
“Upholding this ban makes it extremely troublesome for me to search out potential clients and to teach folks about Mississippi’s medical marijuana program.” — Corcroft in a press release
Mississippi’s Division of Well being bars medical hashish dispensaries within the state “from promoting and advertising in any media,” together with newspapers, tv, magazines, social media, billboards, and e mail lists which leaves the enterprise homeowners with solely enterprise web sites overlaying “basic data” about their companies and signage on their very own property.
The judges wrote that federal legislation – on this case, the CSA – applies in all states and Mississippi “faces no constitutional impediment to limiting business speech referring to illegal transactions.”
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