Medical marijuana ad released

The first-ever medical marijuana commercial has aired on US television, likening buying the drug to sushi.

In the ad, released by Marijuana Doctors, a suspect looking seller asks the camera: "Yo, you want sushi?"

He then runs through a list of the raw fish delicacies, pulling out tiny slabs of raw tuna and raw salmon from his overcoat: "I got the finest sashimi this area's seen in years".

The commercial continues with the seller telling the camera that "you need me and I need you" before he discretely hands a tuna roll over to a passerby.

The ad ends with a voice over telling the audience: "You wouldn't buy sushi from this guy, so why would you buy your marijuana from him?"

Medical marijuana has been legalised in several US states but it is still illegal under federal US law.

Source: YouTube

Author: Natasha Lee, Approving editor: Nick Pearson