Facebook Shutting Down Medicinal Marijuana Pages
According to the news website, NJ.com, Facebook has started to remove pages for organizations that legitimately offer cannabis for medicinal purposes in New Jersey. The three dispensaries were all allowed to sell and authorized to provide marijuana for medicinal reasons in the condition of…

According to the news website, NJ.com, Facebook has started to remove pages for organizations that legitimately offer cannabis for medicinal purposes in New Jersey. The three dispensaries were all allowed to sell and authorized to provide marijuana for medicinal reasons in the condition of New Jersey, one of 23 states in which medicinal cannabis deals are permitted by law. These dispensaries aren’t the only one. The report additionally subtle elements various medicinal cannabis suppliers the nation over that had their pages closed down all of a sudden.
In any case, what guideline are these pages disregarding?
For Facebook; these pages have been evacuated for damaging our Community Standards, which diagram what is and is not permitted on Facebook. We prevent any attempts by unapproved merchants to buy, offer or exchange prescription medications, cannabis or guns and this is a good point. But these stores are not offering marijuana from their Facebook pages, which the two dispensaries guaranteed they weren’t, then this point is questionable. These establishments didn’t list costs and rather directed individuals toward a physical area or telephone number. One proprietor educated me of how strict the regulations were to procure these licenses to offer marijuana, and talked convincingly that the licenses themselves didn’t permit internet offering of any deal.
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Meanwhile, a reported 83 percent of illegal prostitutes have Facebook pages. You could buy a firearm on the social networks. But if you just open a dispensary account your page get banned. There has been much research that shows marijuana less harmful than alcohol or cigarettes and can be an answer of curing some serious illness like cancer. Unfortunately, no lobby supports this plant because it will not make them rich.
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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