Mainstream Medical Marijuana Ads Eyed for Toronto

An advertisement for Weedmaps, a U.S.-based pot-related tech company, is pictured in this undated handout photo. The company plans on launching a billboard campaign in Toronto by the end of the month.

Mainstream medical marijuana ads could soon be coming to Toronto.

Weedmaps — a tech company that provides an online directory to connect medical marijuana users with dispensaries — is gearing up to launch what it calls the first mainstream marijuana-related ad campaign in Canada.

Pending permission from a local company, the ad campaign will launch at the end of May and feature the words “High Toronto” on a billboard towering above a yet-to-be-determined location.

“We’re thinking of doing Yonge and Dundas, the Gardiner, or even maybe right outside the airport,” said Steven Scorey, vice-president of sales for Weedmaps.

The company now has a Canadian headquarters, as well as one in the U.S., but that move has more to...

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