If you ever look at a race car during a NASCAR race, you’ll notice that many of them look like subways in Harlem back in the 80’s. NASCAR is known for allowing car owners to pepper their vehicles with almost any brand possible. Well, not any brand. No matter how much money is being generated by the cannabis industry, you’re money is not welcome in NASCAR country just yet.
NASCAR ordered driver Carl Long’s team to remove a Colorado marijuana company’s logo from the hood of his car, saying it violated sponsorship and paint scheme regulations.
The incident, which occurred at a track in Kansas City, Kansas, underscored the difficulties marijuana companies have encountered when trying to market their brands. Social media giants including Facebook and Instagram, for example, have shuttered the accounts of cannabis businesses.
Veedverks, a Denver-based medical marijuana company, had its logo painted on the hood of Carl Long’s No. 66 car, the Associated Press reported. But when NASCAR learned about the logo, Long was told to remove it Friday before he could hit the track. A NASCAR spokesman said Long failed to have the logo approved.
According to the Sporting News, a Veedverks spokesman said in a Facebook post that NASCAR had approved the sponsorship prior to the race.
“They approved it, we spent the money, then they stripped our logo off the car without so much as an apology,” the spokesman wrote, according to the Sporting News.
I guess you can’t have joint being passed around when clearly the goal is to get to blind you with as many beer advertisements you fill up a red cup as quick as possible. No cannabis sponsors, but alcohol and up until pretty recently, tobacco for days? Kinda hypocritcal right?