"Oakland’s Harborside Health Center — one of the largest medical marijuana dispensaries in the country — maintained a Facebook page for five years without any complaints. Last month, without warning, the page was taken down. The same thing happened to the dispensary on Instagram, a photo-sharing service owned by Facebook.
Harborside officials say Facebook’s only explanation was an on-screen message that read: “We remove any promotion or encouragement of drug use.”
Despite the federal government’s attempt to close it, Harborside remains a legally operating, city-licensed facility dispensing marijuana to patients with a doctor’s prescription — a service that has been legal in California since 1996. Yet it is one of a couple dozen marijuana-related businesses that have seen their social media pages darkened or their apps yanked from Apple’s iTunes stores in recent months with little warning or explanation."
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/i...centers-booted-itunes-facebook-instagram.html
In my opinion, Facebook and Apple are getting way too big for their britches. This is just plain wrong!!! Harborside Health Center is a model dispensary and has never been charged, let alone convicted of a crime. I think Facebook and other social media sites, are just towing the government's anti-marijuana agenda.
I really feel like throwing my iPhone in the recycle bin! I have never had a Facebook account but if I did, I would close it! NOW! This just makes me SO angry!!! Grrrrrrrrr!
Harborside officials say Facebook’s only explanation was an on-screen message that read: “We remove any promotion or encouragement of drug use.”
Despite the federal government’s attempt to close it, Harborside remains a legally operating, city-licensed facility dispensing marijuana to patients with a doctor’s prescription — a service that has been legal in California since 1996. Yet it is one of a couple dozen marijuana-related businesses that have seen their social media pages darkened or their apps yanked from Apple’s iTunes stores in recent months with little warning or explanation."
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/i...centers-booted-itunes-facebook-instagram.html
In my opinion, Facebook and Apple are getting way too big for their britches. This is just plain wrong!!! Harborside Health Center is a model dispensary and has never been charged, let alone convicted of a crime. I think Facebook and other social media sites, are just towing the government's anti-marijuana agenda.
I really feel like throwing my iPhone in the recycle bin! I have never had a Facebook account but if I did, I would close it! NOW! This just makes me SO angry!!! Grrrrrrrrr!
