Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Pens Letter To Facebook Re Hemp Company Pages

WKYT reports…….Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles has come to the defense of the state’s hemp companies who have had their Facebook pages taken down for promoting their businesses.

“America’s hemp farmers and businesses should be celebrated and supported – not hassled – by Facebook and other social media companies,” Quarles wrote in a letter dated Friday and sent to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the social media giant’s headquarters in California.

In the letter, Quarles urges Facebook to stop the platform’s “recent practice of limiting its users’ ability to advertise and communicate about hemp-based products and businesses.”

Kentucky’s hemp industry has exploded in recent years. The state went from having only 32 acres of hemp five years ago to having 6,700 acres planted in 2018, Commissioner Quarles told WKYT’s Garrett Wymer in an interview on Friday afternoon.

And while a strained relationship between hemp-related businesses and social media is nothing new, Quarles said now there is no reason for that after the Farm Bill signed by President Trump last month removed hemp from the list of controlled substances under federal law.

“Because hemp products are legal,” Quarles’ leader reads, “it is baffling to me that Facebook would attempt to interfere with hemp business owners’ efforts to advertise and communicate with the public about their products.”

The letter came as welcome news to owners of some hemp businesses, like KY CBD Farmacy in Nicholasville, which sells CBD oil and other hemp-based products. After appeals to restore their Facebook page were denied, the shop’s owners re-launched their page as KY CBD Farmily.

Source & More at   https://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Ky-Ag-Commissioner-urges-Facebook-to-stop-kicking-hemp-companies-503931581.html

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