New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 8 - COMMERCIAL AND MEDICAL CANNABIS
Part 3 - PACKAGING, LABELING, ADVERTISING, MARKETING, AND COMMERCIAL DISPLAY REQUIREMENTS FOR CANNABIS PRODUCTS
Section 16.8.3.8 - ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.8.3.8
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Required Practices. The following practices are required in all advertising and marketing activities:
(1)
Responsible persons. All advertisements and marketing for cannabis
products shall accurately and legibly identify all licensees or organizations
who are responsible for the proliferation of the advertisement or marketing
activity.
(2)
Reasonable
expectation of audience age. All advertisements in print and digital
communications shall only be placed in areas where at least seventy percent of
the audience is reasonably expected to be 21 years of age or older as
determined by reliable, current audience composition data. For the purposes of
this section, "reliable, current audience composition data" means data
regarding the age and location demographics of the audience viewing a
particular advertising or marketing medium. Immediately upon request, a
licensee shall provide to the division audience composition data as required in
this section for advertising or marketing placed by the licensee. If the
audience composition data for advertising or marketing provided by a licensee
does not comply with the requirements of this section, or the licensee fails to
provide audience composition data to the division upon request, the licensee
shall remove the advertising or marketing placement in question.
(3)
Statements and warnings: Any
advertising or marketing materials created for viewing by the public shall
include the statement "Please Consume Responsibly" in a conspicuous manner on
the face of the advertisement and shall include the following warnings that
must be in type size at least ten percent of the largest type used in the
advertisement:
(a) for use only by adults 21
and older;
(b) keep out of reach of
children;
(c) this product is not
approved by the FDA to treat, cure, or prevent any disease. FDA has not
evaluated this product for safety, effectiveness, and quality;
(d) do not drive a motor vehicle or operate
machinery while under the influence of cannabis; and
(e) there may be long term adverse health
effects from consumption of cannabis, including additional risks for women who
are or may become pregnant or are breastfeeding.
B. Prohibited practices. Advertising and marketing activities of cannabis products shall not:
(1) occur on radio, television or other
broadcast media, internet pop-ups and mass transit vehicles. The division shall
not prohibit advertising and marketing activities on these forums where:
(a) subscribers of subscription-based radio,
television or other broadcast media are 21 years of age or older; or
(b) persons 21 years of age or older have
solicited the advertising or marketing activities.
(2) be done in such a manner that is deemed
to be is deceptive, misleading, false or fraudulent, or that tends to deceive
or create a misleading impression, whether directly or by omission or
ambiguity;
(3) make unproven health
benefit claims and any health benefit claims must be supported by substantial
evidence or substantial clinical data;
(4) be on billboards, posters, handbills or
other visual media that are located or can be viewed within 300 feet of a
school, daycare center or church;
(5) contain symbols or images, including a
celebrity or celebrity likeness, that are commonly used to market products to
minors;
(6) use predatory marketing
or advertising practices targeting minors; and
(7) be designed to mimic any other product
brand;
(8) promote the over
consumption of cannabis or cannabis products; or
(9) depict the actual consumption of cannabis
or cannabis products.
C. Branding. "Branding" means promotion of a cannabis establishment's brand through publicizing the cannabis establishment's name, logo, or distinct design feature of the brand.
(1) Branding
shall not be designed to be appealing to a child and shall not contain:
(a) cartoons;
(b) a design, brand or name that resembles a
non-cannabis consumer product of the type that is typically marketed to
minors;
(c) contain symbols or
images, including a celebrity or celebrity likeness, that are commonly used to
market products to minors.
(2) Branding is not considered a marketing or
advertising activity.
(3) Branding
is allowed without the required warnings and statements for advertising and
marketing of cannabis establishments.
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