Adsense and Marijuana

iMersky · 09-29-2009, 08:01 PM

I was just wondering if anyone knows if it is against Google's TOS to use adsense on a marijuana site? Is it against it for both medical and recreational?

bluearrow · 10-01-2009, 05:29 AM

Yup it's against TOS. There is nothing about medical use of it in TOS but if they decided to ban you I doubt they would take excuses about not mentioned it TOS.

**enlytend** · 10-01-2009, 08:13 AM

Neither type of usage is permissable:

Quote:

Sites with Google ads may not include or link to:

...
* Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia content
* Sales of beer or hard alcohol
* Sales of tobacco or tobacco-related products
* Sales of prescription drugs
...

source: https://www.google.com/adsense/suppo...n&answer=48182

I guess if you're only TALKING about medicinal use you might nit-pick and argue that it's OK, but personally I wouldn't go there unless someone from Google specifically told me it was OK. Why risk your account? Either leave it be or contact them and ask about it.

angilina · 10-01-2009, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by iMersky

I was just wondering if anyone knows if it is against Google's TOS to use adsense on a marijuana site? Is it against it for both medical and recreational?

The best thing to do is to send an email to Adsense support and ask if this is ok. It is to make sure that you are on the safe side. But personally will agree to what others said: that is, most probably, Adsense will not allow this.

iMersky · 10-03-2009, 11:17 PM

Alright, thanks for the help.

mdamin76 · 10-04-2009, 08:45 PM

My advise, is to avoid it. You have tons of topics to write about out there.

winterwind.com · 10-29-2009, 06:24 PM

Dont do it, adsense is super strict about the content on sites.

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iMersky Account Closed Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 397 Follow @n0lan	Alright, thanks for the help.

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