Don’t be fooled by all the Instagram posts prominently featuring dank, trichome-laden nugs: Social media is not a pot-friendly platform. Now local businesses are finding that out the hard way, losing profile pages overnight that they’ve spent months building up followings for.
Over the past few months, Facebook and Instagram have both shut down the accounts of Uncle Ike’s, Cannabis City, and Dockside Cannabis. While those businesses advertised the sale of marijuana on their pages, which is technically a violation of Facebook’s advertising policy, Facebook has also censored pages that don’t…