Dealers pushing pot on social networks create legal haze

10 July 2009 | 9:29 - By Stefano Boscutti

Who knew Twitter, Facebook and MySpace were gateway drugs? It started off as something social, but now some California medical marijuana dispensaries are using the popular social networks to update their clientele, and anyone else who's interested, on what they have to offer.

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"BB Kush, NY Soma, SD Strom, Forrest G, Green C, Baby Crunch, Spy Diesel, buy 1/4 get gram free. Baked goods, Grams, Joints avail." reads the Twitter stream for Artists Collective, a Hollywood based dispensary. Artists Collective also has Facebook and Myspace pages touting their free delivery service, as do other medical marijuana dispensaries, like San Francisco's Green Cross. In California, it's legal to cultivate and dispense marijuana for medical purposes provided both grower and buyer adhere to state regulations. But is it legal to advertise those products and services that are illegal in most other states (and countries) on the internet?

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11 Jul 2009 6:24 AEST

rb

From: UK

Good use for social networks

High Boz, Some of your more active online readers might like to visit www.debategraph.org a UK/OZ social venture which currently has a 'map' of criminalisation /legalisation issues for illegal drugs. Imagine all those social networkers actually debating the issues here, and there - what potential. Even the twits.

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