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So you’re a General Manager and you get a call from a local medical marijuana dispensary with a 13 week order. Would you take the revenue if you got the call? Ads are being run on Greater Media’s WBOS-FM in Boston according to the Boston Herald. Mike Fitzgerald is the founder of the New England Grass Roots Institute. His radio ads state the following, according to the Boston Herald: “This all-natural herb can be infused into almost any food or beverage. Used properly, medical marijuana adds to a healthy lifestyle. Medical Marijauna: Is it right for you? Talk to your doctor, then talk to us.”

Wayne Sampson, executive director of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, told the Herald, this presents a challenge for for law enforcement. “It certainly doesn’t seem that if this was truly a medical issue that they would have to be advertising for clients. This is purely a commercial operation.”

Would you, should you take the ads? Let us know below.

Wizzo, as you know, is never short of opinions, so he popped his head up out of his gopher-hole and responded:

(2/4/2014 6:18:27 AM)
Based on the numerous ads we see for new prescription drugs on TV each day, Wayne Sampson’s argument that “It certainly doesn’t seem that if this was truly a medical issue that they would have to be advertising for clients,” seems a little bit ridiculous. Just sayin’.
– Roy H. Williams

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My 15-year-old son signed up for every free offer he could find.  But he was careful to use a pseudonym.

The people who bought the house we lived in back when my son was 15 called me today to let me know that they are still receiving mountains of mail addressed to BC Williams, Booty C. Williams, and Booty Call Williams.

My 15-year-old son turned 45 this year.

Many thousands of ad dollars have been spent to reach the highly coveted and perfectly targeted “Booty Call Williams,” even though he was a figment of my son’s imagination on that day 30 years ago when “Booty Call” impulsively sprang into existence with a $250,000 annual income, a $200 haircut, and a full set of teeth.

The moral of this story is that the data provided to you by the sellers of advertising cannot always be trusted.

“

- Roy H. Williams, May 21, 2025

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