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Post Office Says Marijuana Ads Make Periodicals 'Nonmailable'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 12/11/2015 - 07:56

Rocky Mountain Organic MedicineLast month U.S. Postal Service officials in Portland, Oregon, announced that periodicals containing marijuana ads are "nonmailable." That came as a surprise to Oregon newspaper publishers, many of whom depend on the mail to deliver part of their print runs and some of whom sell space to cannabusinesses, which are legal under Oregon law. While publishers knew those businesses are still considered criminal enterprises under federal law, it never occurred to them that a single dispensary ad could make an entire issue untouchable by the USPS.

Members of Oregon's congressional delegation were surprised too. Last week four of them—Sens. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, plus Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici, all Democrats—sent a letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan, asking whether her underlings in Portland were freelancing or stating a national policy. "It appears a clarification of USPS policy is needed for state-legal marijuana...

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