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EXCLUSIVE: How the illegal weed market games Google

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Jungleboysfarm.com

By Alex Halperin
12/02/2022 03:42 PM GMT-0700
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In April, Google disabled its business listing for The Artist Tree’s shop on LA’s Beverly Blvd.

The suspension came after the listing, on Google’s equivalent of local directory Yelp, was bombarded with negative reviews, many of which said the business was fake, or did not exist, Artist Tree co-founder and cannabis counsel Lauren Fontein told WeedWeek. The reviews told people to shop at an unlicensed retailer where they could find better prices.

After Google disabled shop's profile, The Artist Tree stopped . . .

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