Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It?

Re:Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It? by philwelch on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @06:44PM (#731263)

It's illegal to advertise tobacco on television, and hard liquor is never advertised either out of social norms. Also, open and legal production of cannabis would improve quality and variety while open and legal distribution would help too.

Whenever I go grocery shopping, there are the mass-produced cheap beers, but there are also good imports and microbrews. The wine aisle has even greater variety. Why would weed be different?

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Re:Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It? by pyre on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @10:28PM (#731572)

Hard liquor is never advertised on TV?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanqueray http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Morgan

"Got a little Cap'n in you?"

These are all off-the-top of my head examples of commercials I've seen on TV... maybe you meant broadcast vs cable television? Or are you outside of the US? (I assumed you were in the USA b/c of the no cigarette commercials comment... I think that's only in the US...)

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Re:Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It? by bowman on Thursday July 30, 2009 @11:44PM (#733699)

I think the US and New Zealand are the only (or one of the few) countries that allow alcohol commercials on TV.

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Re:Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It? by philwelch on Wednesday July 29, 2009 @11:27PM (#731639)

It's fairly rare to advertise hard liquor on TV, though some have broken the norm.

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