Legal challenge seeks to overturn Quebec ban on cannabis T-shirts, other products
Apr 15, 2021 | 12:47 PM
MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge is hearing the final day of arguments in a head shop’s challenge of a provincial law that bans the sale of cannabis-themed products.
The co-owner of Prohibition, a chain of smoking accessory stores based in the Montreal area, says it doesn’t make sense that he had to stop selling T-shirts with images of cannabis leaves and books about the drug after legalization in 2018.
Christopher Mennillo says in an interview he went to court because he considers the law a violation of his freedom of expression.
Quebec’s cannabis law bans the sale of products — except for cannabis itself — with a “design, image or slogan” directly associated with cannabis.
