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WEED OUT USPS to newspapers: Your marijuana ads are illegal

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 12/07/2015 - 08:45

Hieb said that although the newspaper publishers group is looking for legal clarity on the issue, she's advising members not to run marijuana ads if they use the postal service for some delivery, fearing USPS could "seize all papers".

Some potentially bad news for OR newspapers that accepts ads from local marijuana dispensaries.

OR legalized medical marijuana use in 1998 and recreational use in 2014, that law took effect in July and the state is still working through a number of problems. But that law has become somewhat obsolete, as Congress stripped the U.S. Department of Justice, which includes the DEA, of its power to interfere in states that have legalized medical marijuana.

Members of Oregon's congressional delegation this week asked the US postmaster general for a "detailed explanation" of a postal service policy prohibiting mailing material that contains marijuana advertising.

Unless it's an ad for legal marijuana. Ron Wyden...

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