Topic - Weedmaps

Weedmaps is an online legal marijuana community that allows users to review and discuss cannabis strains and local dispensaries. The website is similar to Yelp and contains a database with over 3,000 medical marijuana dispensaries and over 950 strains of cannabis. The company was launched in July 2008 by Justin Hartfield and Keith Hoerling. The site attracts approximately two million monthly visitors and has annual revenue of $18 million. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - In this June 27, 2017, file photo, Jerred Kiloh, owner of the licensed medical marijuana dispensary Higher Path, stocks shelves with with cannabis products in Los Angeles. Weedmaps a major online pot shop directory and cannabis marketplace announced Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019, that it will no longer allow black-market businesses to advertise on its site, a decision that could boost California's efforts to rein in its vast illegal market. Kiloh, who heads the United Cannabis Business Association, an industry group, projected that half of California's illegal operations could dry up once they are denied access to Weedmaps ads. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

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FILE - In this June 27, 2017, file photo, Jerred Kiloh, owner of the Higher Path medical marijuana dispensary, stocks shelves with with cannabis products in Los Angeles. State regulators have warned the popular website Weedmaps to take down ads from illegal sellers or face possible penalties, but the company says it’s not breaking any laws. Kiloh said &quot;That's Weedmaps' business model, to confuse the difference between legal and illegal,&quot; Kiloh, a licensed dispensary owner who heads the United Cannabis Business Association, an industry group. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

California regulators target web ads for illegal pot shops

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