About Face

by Chris Bodenner

Ryan Grim has a fantastic post on Facebook's decision to ban ads promoting pot legalization in California. The site originally agreed to run the ads but reversed itself because the image of a marijuana leaf runs counter to its policy:

Facebook's ad rules, however, only ban promotion of "[t:]obaccoproducts," not smoking in general. Since the 1970s, shops sellingmarijuana paraphernalia have sought ways around the law bydisingenuously claiming their products are "for tobacco use...