The pot business may be legal, but newspapers can’t run ads for it, the U.S. Postal Service says

The Washington Post (online registration required): The U.S. Postal Service issued a policy for newspapers in half the states last week that says they’re breaking the law if they mail any issues containing ads for marijuana products, even though the states have legalized pot.

This parsing of federal law, released by postal officials as national policy after inquiries from Oregon’s congressional delegation, is one of the messy consequences of the movement to legalize cannabis: It’s bought, sold and advertised for recreational and medical use in some states, but still illegal under federal law.

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