Now that the federal government is allowing hemp to be grown again, it looks like the corporations are sticking together to try to protect one another, including Facebook trying to protect Big Pharma from losing business over medical marijuana products.



Quote As Hemp Legalized, Facebook Now Banning Hemp Pages in Apparent Move to Protect Big Pharma

As the farm bill legalized hemp nationwide, Facebook began unpublishing help pages, accusing them of 'promoting pharmaceuticals' without Facebook's approval.

Because government is the antithesis to freedom, industrial hemp has been banned nationwide since 1937 ostensibly due to the plant’s similarities to marijuana. Many have speculated that this move was also due to the fact that cannabis is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry by providing far safer alternative treatments as wel. However, all this changed this month after President Donald Trump signed the Agriculture Improvement act of 2018, legalizing industrial hemp on a national scale.

Industrial hemp is once again legal in all 50 states but its legalization has set off a new disturbing trend. In a move that appears to be a give away to big pharma, Facebook has begun banning hemp pages.

Just as the farm bill was passed by the House and Senate earlier this month, the page for hemp grower “Franny’s Farmacy” was banned.

“We had that up for about the first month, got a few thousand followers, it was great, it was really driving sales, then it disappeared,” co-owner Franny Tacy said.

The reason Facebook gave them for banning their hemp page was utterly bogus too. The social media giant claimed that Franny was “Promoting the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals.”

“Being an ex-pharmaceutical rep, there is no way we posted anything that violates Facebook’s terms of service,” Tacy said to Carolina Cannabis News. “We make no claims, we make no recommendations … but we do use the words hemp and CBD and those seem to be becoming trigger words as well.”

Days after being banned, Franny started a new page which began amassing new followers, but after just four days, it was taken down too. This time, Facebook accused Franny and Jeff Tacy of “encouraging drug use.” They sell no drugs whatsoever.


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This is good in a way, because it means the federal government isn't protecting Big Pharma at all costs anymore. The pharmaceutical lobby must have been really upset when the Farm Bill passed.

Facebook censorship is no substitute for a government ban. It's just a matter of time before there is a paradigm change in this area of medical research, using natural products and moving away from patents for pills. It's already happening in many places.