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The First Marijuana-Related Ad Airs On Major Television Network

Chris Roberts Mar 3, 2014 12:53 PM

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With over $1 billion worth of sales in California alone, marijuana has been a big business for some time.

Yet, legal weed isn't quite Big Business in the made-it-in-America sense: The stock market has no marijuana-fueled heavy hitters and whatever "big marijuana" is -- beyond fears of an evil corporate specter that will take over when and if pot finally goes legit -- it hasn't quite yet appeared.

But there's a milestone for America's legitimate cannabis industry today just the same: a marijuana-related television ad, believed to be the first of its kind, airing on Comcast-fueled cable boxes in New Jersey this week.

The ad features no marijuana, but it does have raw fish.