Instagram Deleting Legal Cannabis Accounts
Instagram Leaves Several Legal Canadian Cannabis Companies Out in the Cold – LPC
Even though cannabis is legal in Canada, many US government agencies and even companies are ignoring that fact. Canada Post has had legally sent cannabis seized by US border officials. Even Air Canada passengers diverted unexpectantly to the US were nervous. Now there’s news of Instagram deleting legal cannabis accounts, Leafly reports.
Instagram continues to frustrate legal cannabis companies in Canada, with what some business owners are deeming to be random and arbitrary enforcement actions.
Leafly spoke with three legal cannabis retailers who have had their accounts deleted in the past few weeks, one a non-medical store in Alberta, one a medical cannabis retailer in Ontario, and the third a non-medical retailer in Toronto.
The actions, they all say, came with no opportunity to appeal or even get details on the decision. Legal retailers locked out for violating Instagram community guidelines
Ryan Roch, the owner of Lakeburn Cannabis , an independent cannabis retailer in Alberta, says he recently woke up to a message from Instagram telling him he needed to change his phone number.
“Instagram asked me for a phone number change and when that happened and I changed the phone number, it locked me out of the account and said we had violated the community guidelines and then that was that,” explains Roch.
“I can’t even appeal. I found a random email form on Instagram and that’s been the only way to appeal it that I’ve found, but I haven’t heard back anything.”Roch says he doesn’t have any idea why the account was taken […]
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