Unlike Michigan, Ohio has no plans to allow marijuana billboards: The Wake Up for Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024

If you’ve driven an interstate highway through Michigan, you’ve been bombarded with billboards for weed.

The state approved recreational marijuana five years ago and the ads immediately proliferated, with competing companies boasting homegrown products, free delivery and puns. (“Stop by and say high!”)

That’s in part because federal laws make advertising marijuana illegal on TV and radio.

Detroit is cracking down on billboards near schools, parks, libraries and more, in part because schools are seeing widespread cannabis use in kids.

But Ohio won’t have the billboard problem because the state – where dispensaries were allowed to begin selling to adults aged 21 and older on Aug. 6 – has no plans to allow billboard advertising for pot.

At least one advocate calls the ban an unfair limit on free speech.