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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Postal Service Stops Newspapers From Cashing In On Legal Marijuana 🌿Postal Service Stops Newspapers From Cashing In On Legal Marijuana
The marijuana industry has blossomed from a back alley trade to a thriving $3 billion industry, but the U.S. Postal Service just told the newspaper industry they wouldn’t be cashing in.
Recreational marijuana is legal in Oregon, but not at the federal level and that’s what prompted the Portland USPS office to issue a warning to area newspapers not to run paid marijuana ads, according to Fox News.
“The Controlled Substances Act (CSA) makes it a felony for any person to place in any newspaper, magazine, handbill or other publications, any written advertisement knowing that it has the purpose of seeking or offering illegally to receive, buy or distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, which includes marijuana.”
The memo upset and confused local Oregon newspapers, which had welcomed the new source of advertising revenue.
Many newspapers in neighboring-state Washington have been running marijuana ads since 2012, when...
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