Facebook suspends Canada’s largest Cannabis-related Facebook Page

On August 27th, the admin team of the Kingston Compassion Club Society’s (K.C.C.S) Facebook Page, It’s Cannabis, Not Marijuana, received notification from Facebook that the page is being suspended. They are unable to create posts, access the page analytics, also called Insights, and have lost administrative rights, such as posting as the page in other sections of Facebook.

The admins attracted the attention of Facebook by attempting to add the physical address of the K.C.C.S via the admin panel. They are currently working with Facebook to have the name changed to Kingston Compassion Club Society or to keep the current name, in an attempt to prevent Facebook from outright deleting the page.

This page is the largest Canadian Facebook presence, with almost 28,000 “Likes”,and a source of accurate, non-biased cannabis news and education for millions. Many cannabis blogs follow the page and re-blog stories that the page shares. The page tolerates an open-debate policy in it’s comments, rarely deleting any content submitted by users. Already several cannabis-content pages on Facebook have expressed their support for KCCS and have called out Facebook for it’s attack on Freedom of Speech in it’s community.