TIMES UNION: ‘MARIJUANA’ ADS FAIL GOOGLE POLICY TEST
Don’t try to Google the terms “medical marijuana” or “medical cannabis” and expect to find ads for dispensaries in New York. The operator of one of five new medical marijuana providers in the state recently learned that the hard way. When he tried to advertise with the search engine giant he found that ads with those terms — “medical cannabis” or “medical marijuana” — were rejected. While Google accepted other ads without those terms, it was akin to, say, Ford...
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