OLYMPIA — Some riders and at least one driver are complaining about an advertisement featuring a marijuana leaf on some transit buses in Olympia.
The Olympia Hempfest ad accepted by Intercity Transit has an image of a marijuana leaf and the slogan, "Equal Rights are for Everybody."
A lawyer for the transit agency, Tom Bjorgen, says the ads could have been rejected if they were viewed as encouraging people to smoke pot.
So what do you think? Isn't it about time we started to bring the "icons of the drug war" out into the mainstream? Seems to me the only reason this would be disallowed, is by officials who don't wish to intergrate the cannabis leaf into society, to stop just this reaction in future? Join us on the Canna Zine cannabis forums and let us know what you think.
However, Bjorgen says a reasonable reader would more likely see the ads as a political statement for legalization of marijuana.
Olympia Hempfest founder Jeremy Miller says Intercity Transit was paid about $3,000 to place the ads on the sides of 12 buses for four weeks.
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