Mike Welch, owner of Siskiyou Medical Supply, said he’s not too concerned about his business' Facebook page, though he does use it. A search of the word “marijuana” on Facebook turned up dozens of cannabis-related posts, including videos showing people smoking bongs. Other references to marijuana and marijuana products still could be found on many Facebook pages on Monday despite the company’s policies. Other Facebook pages belonging to local dispensaries appeared to be working Monday, but one dispensary owner declined to be interviewed for fear Facebook would shut his page down. 4 that three of New Jersey’s five medical marijuana dispensary pages had been taken down by Facebook. She said she plans to appeal Facebook's decision to take her pages down. Malarkey said she will attempt to rebuild her Facebook page to make it more compatible with Facebook’s requirements. “Facebook is not honoring Oregon’s decision to legalize cannabis.” “This is really a states rights versus federal rights issue,” Malarkey said. She said Facebook pages in other states where marijuana is legal also are being shut down. She said she follows all state and local employment laws and files tax returns. Malarkey said her Facebook page promoted medicinal herbs and wasn’t exclusively about cannabis. Facebook informed Malarkey, “We remove any promotion or encouragement of drug use.”Īn email from Facebook stated, "We do allow marijuana advocacy content as long as it is not promoting the sale of the drug." “I suppose that is apropos, since we were the first legal dispensary in the area, and now we’re the first in the Rogue Valley to be shut down by Facebook,” said Brie Malarkey, owner of Breeze Botanicals.įacebook advertising guidelines state, "Ads may not promote or facilitate the sale or consumption of illegal or recreational drugs, tobacco products, or drug or tobacco paraphernalia."įacebook notified Malarkey that her store pages cannot be published because they didn’t conform to Facebook’s terms and community standards. An Oregon Cannabis Association spokeswoman said this appears to be the first dispensary in the state to be shut out of Facebook. Facebook has shut down a Rogue Valley marijuana dispensary's page as part of a nationwide crackdown on anything that promotes drugs.īreeze Botanicals, which has locations in Ashland and Gold Hill, discovered its Facebook pages would no longer be published on Monday.
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