Las Vegas Sun

April 22, 2024

Postal Service to newspapers: Stop taking pot advertisements

Pot

David Zalubowski / AP

In this photo taken with a fisheye lens Saturday, April 25, 2015, buyers make their purchases at the counter of a retail and grow operation for medical and recreational marijuana in northeast Denver.

Newspapers in states where pot is legal are breaking federal law by accepting advertising from the marijuana industry, and the U.S. Postal Service may stop delivering newspapers with the offending ads.

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