Mary’s Medicinals Latest Victim of Cannabis Facebook Page Shutdowns

Mary’s Medicinals — an all-natural producer of medical cannabis products based out of Colorado — is the latest victim in a string of medical marijuana businesses whose pages have been shut down by Facebook. But only some pages have been targeted for what Facebook claims are violations of their Community Standards.

Before the shutdown, the Mary’s Medicinals page had built a large, supportive community of medical cannabis patients, many of whom were parents of children who experience seizures and people with terminal diagnoses.

“We were building our community really quickly and able to get a great reach,” said Graham Sorkin, Director of Business Development at Mary’s Medicinals. “We had thousands of followers.”

This week, Mary’s Medicinals was inexplicably charged with violating Facebook’s guidelines, and Sorkin was told the page would be taken down. 

According to the company’s new Facebook page, nearly 20,000 followers were lost.

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