Late December last year, the staff at Greenleaf Apothecaries received a surprising message from the Ohio Board of Pharmacy.<\/p>\n
An advertisement for a talk by one of the company\u2019s employees included the company\u2019s logo. The board considered the image an advertisement for the company, and said that Greenleaf, whose medical marijuana dispensary in the Arena District operates under The Botanist name, didn\u2019t approve the ad with the state ahead of time.<\/p>\n
Greenleaf was unaware that their logo was included in material promoting the talk, which was organized by a third party.<\/p>\n
The state accused Greenleaf of violating Ohio\u2019s medical marijuana advertising rules, a rare infraction.<\/p>\n
Only six other violations are listed in state records. The pharmacy board\u2019s message to Greenleaf was merely an admonishment and a warning to do better in the future. But the story demonstrates how easily cannabis companies can run afoul of marketing rules in a state with a medical marijuana program that\u2019s only two years old.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenerally speaking, the advertising restrictions are a universal pain point for the (medical marijuana) program here,\u201d said Thomas Haren, a Cleveland attorney who has worked with Greenleaf. [Read more at The Columbus Dispatch<\/a>]<\/p>\n The post Ad restrictions frustrate medical marijuana companies in Ohio<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Business Executive – Cannabis and Marijuana industry news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n An advertisement for a talk by one of the company\u2019s\u00a0employees included the company\u2019s logo. The board considered the image an advertisement for the company, and said that Greenleaf, whose medical marijuana dispensary in the Arena District operates under\u00a0The Botanist name, didn\u2019t approve the ad with the state ahead of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2882\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdeancarter.com\/SMK\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}