A spokeswoman for Allegiant Air confirmed today that the airline based in Las Vegas will be running marijuana advertisements in its in-flight magazines now.
The first weed-related advertising that will be in the magazine will be Acres Cannabis, a Las Vegas dispensary that opened earlier this year in May.
It will be featured in a full-page ad in the airlines Sunseeker magazine said CEO John Mueller. The ad will be running until the end of October.
Mueller remarked, “The campaign creates another first for the marijuana industry and helps propel all of us toward mainstream acceptance.”
Allegiant operates multiple flights a week to over 100 airports across the United States.
Spokeswoman Krysta Levy commented, “We are a publisher, and they are an advertiser,” Levy said. “The decision to allow Acres Cannabis to advertise in Sunseeker comes with no endorsement of the company or its products.”
