The Rhode Island Home on Tuesday unanimously authorized a invoice to permit state-approved hashish firms to promote on billboards, the Boston Globe stories. Underneath the state’s hashish legalization regulation, Rhode Island companies weren’t allowed to promote on billboards; nonetheless, firms in neighboring states, together with Massachusetts and Connecticut, have been promoting on billboards within the state.
State Rep. Scott A. Slater (D), who launched the hashish legalization and promoting payments, mentioned the state’s dispensaries have been at “a severe drawback” as a result of they weren’t allowed to promote on billboards whereas out-of-state firms have been already doing so.
“Now that Rhode Island’s leisure hashish business is up and operating, our dispensaries are going through a big impediment when competing with our neighbors in Massachusetts and Connecticut. … This invoice will right this inequity whereas additionally supporting these new native companies in Rhode Island by hopefully retaining Rhode Islanders from crossing the border to buy their hashish in neighboring states.” — Slater to the Globe
The invoice permits the state Workplace of Hashish Regulation to offer hashish firms with varieties, insurance policies, and necessities for promoting merchandise within the state.
The measure nonetheless requires approval from the state Senate and by the governor.
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