No marijuana billboards allowed? California is making it hard on legal weed
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Corrupting kids? A billboard near Los Angeles International Airport advertises the marijuana delivery service Eaze in 2018.Mario Tama / Getty Images 2018Show MoreShow Less
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A bill in the California Legislature would further limit cannabis billboards.Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images 2019Show MoreShow Less
California — birthplace of the Grateful Dead, Snoop Dogg and the Weedmaps app — is still uptight about marijuana, more than four years after voters legalized it for adult recreational use and 25 years after they OKd medicinal herb.
It’s baffling that there is still a stigma attached to cannabis in a state that grows more of it than anywhere else on the planet and whose legal industry employs more people than anywhere in the nation. The industry generated more than $3.7 billion in business last year in California, according to Leafly, a cannabis sales and news site.