TRENTON — The Facebook home pages for two medical marijuana dispensaries are working again after the operators deleted the price list and photos of the medicinal plant to comply with the social media company's rules, the dispensary managers confirmed.
Compassionate Sciences Alternative Treatment Center General Manager Michael Nelson said the Facebook page went live Sunday – four days after the Menlo Park, Calif. company disconnected it without advance warning for violating a policy that prohibits the promotion of an illegal goods.
Facebook restored the home page for Breakwater Health and Wellness in Cranbury on Monday, said the dispensary's founder Alex Zaleski. All mentions of specific products and entries posted prior to Feb. 5 appear to have been deleted.
There are 5,668 patients in the medical marijuana program. Critics say more people could be helped if the state expanded the list of qualifying conditions.
Despite medical marijuana programs operating in 23 states and Washington D.C., marijuana possession and production violates federal law.
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