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Weed dealers thrive on Twitter

Some California pot sellers are living the high life this summer — because high-tech social-networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter are allowing them to legally swap street corners for the Internet.

"Just in! Baby Crunch, Spy Diesel and Critical Mass! Buy a quarter, get a gram," read the "tweets" listing the strains of pot available from the Los Angeles-based non-profit medical-marijuana dispensary Artists Collective, which also promises "free delivery."

Artists Collective has the biggest online presence, with a snazzy Web site, Facebook and MySpace pages and the Twitter feed. San Francisco's more staid The Green Cross has a MySpace page, but like Artists Collective lists its latest arrivals on its own Web site.

"We've been open for six months, and I've been doing this project for 18 [months], and only in the last two weeks with a Twitter account has anybody started paying attention to us," says Dann Halem, director of Artists Collective. "That sends a message — an important one — and it really has been, strangely enough, the fact that we're using Twitter that has opened the door."

Links to all the Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace pages at FoxNews.com.

Posted By jamesk at 2009-07-06 22:25:39 permalink | comments
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b. : 2010-02-18 02:27:33
ha i love it!
Adam. : 2009-07-08 18:32:46
Of course Twitter isn't going to censor it. These aren't pot dealers!!! That is only what FOX News is calling them.

These are legitimate, state-sponsored medical pot dispensaries, and they aren't going to start dispensing pot to people without medpot cards, they are just going to start using Twitter. You can't even call it advertisement, this is just how Twitter would be "used" by someone who happened to be working there. Unless they tweeted about it from home. ;-) Gray area maybe?

The point is FOX News thinks they can use this new development to blur the line on something people have been clear on for a long time, which is that legitimate medical pot dispensaries are not just dealers.

dreamdust. : 2009-07-07 12:42:14
Interesting that Twitter hasn't censored this. I used to follow a number of twitter-feeds that were censored for linking to nudity, even though they were art blogs. This was in the early days of twitter though...
Crawford Tillinghast. : 2009-07-07 10:48:14
I wondered when somebody outside Iran would actually find a practical use for that stupid thing.
It's called capitalism. : 2009-07-06 23:37:51
The totalitarians don't like that though.

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