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Is the mere image of the seven-bladed cannabis leaf enough to corrupt young minds? On Facebook it is.
JustSayNow.com — a group working to “make sure marijuana reform isn’t neglected this election cycle” — tried to launch ads last week on Facebook.com for its new campaign “Don’t Forget Marijuana”. “The ads featured President Obama, Mitt Romney and images of marijuana [leaves] alongside a message encouraging people to join the campaign,” they wrote in an online statement.
Kind of awesome, actually.
“Facebook rejected the ads on the ridiculous grounds that the simple act of showing a marijuana leaf promotes drug use,” JustSayNow stated. So they’re asking folks to sign their petition at progressive website Firedoglake.com to protest Facebook’s censorship of the “marijuana reform movement’s voice.”
