LA Times: Facebook Bans Use of Marijuana Ad

An advertisement for Just Say Now was rejected after being on the social networking site for more than a week, the pro-pot campaign says.

By John Hoeffel, Los Angeles Times

August 25, 2010

Pot leaves are easy to find on Facebook pages. But the nation's largest social-networking site has decided they cannot appear in advertisements, prohibiting them as "illegal content."

The policy was disclosed Tuesday after a national campaign promoting legalization accused Facebook of censoring political speech. The Just Say Now campaign said the popular website rejected its ads after they had run for more than a week. The ads featured the readily recognizable leaf and asked the website's users to "sign the petition to President Obama to support states' rights to legalize marijuana."

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The Marijuana Policy Project, which promotes legalization nationwide, also does not use the pot leaf. "There is still so much stigma associated with that," said Mike Meno, a spokesman.

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