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Sacramento Bee begins running medical marijuana ads

avatar by Published Aug. 26, 2011 9:32 am Updated Aug. 26, 2011 9:36 am

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The McClatchy-owned Bee has had medical marijuana ads on its website for some time, but it just added them to the print edition. “It’s something that we’re doing because we have been asked to by the advertisers,” says Bee community affairs director Pam Dinsmore. A reader tells me that today’s Bee medical marijuana special section has a piece “about adding culinary flair – chocolate, nuts, and other herbs – to cannabutter purchased from pot dispensaries.” Sacramento News & Review started running medical marijuana ads last year, and has been able to hire more reporters with the additional revenue. (A full-page ad costs $2,000.) “I don’t see how the News & Review running medical-marijuana ads is any different from TV stations running massive amounts of commercials for pharmaceutical companies selling drugs,” says the alt-weekly’s CEO.
> Medical marijuana a revenue blessing for newspapers (Oct. 2010)
> San Francisco Chronicle to launch marijuana special section (June 2010)

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  • Anonymous

    I’m sorry, what? Butter is used to bake pot into a digestible form so it doesn’t have to be smoked. I guess the idea of eating baked goods to address disease might be worthy of legit debate, but it’s not like people use pot to lower high cholesterol. If that’s what you’re even talking about – because what you’re talking about is far from clear. What’s dishonest, exactly? And how does it need to be “addressed?” Not by “BigGov,” I presume. Duh.

  • Anonymous

    Since when does butter have anything to do with medical use?

    This is a new level of dishonesty that needs to be stopped.