Editor's Note
Facebook says they mistakenly removed Facebook pages for hemp and CBD oil companies in North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, and Kentucky that do not violate their policies. According to the Boston Globe, at least six CBD companies in Massachusetts saw their accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram shut down as well. According to Facebook’s Community Standards, the company states that it “prohibit attempts by individuals, manufacturers and retailers to purchase, sell or trade non-medical drugs, pharmaceutical drugs and marijuana.” Facebook said it did not believe hemp or CBD companies violated any of these terms, but it did not further explain why its team had removed these pages and is working to reestablish all CBD pages. 
January 7, 2019
Vox

Facebook took down many CBD business pages. Now it says that was a mistake.
A few weeks ago, Hannah Smith, a 23-year-old Fort Collins, Colorado, resident who works at her family’s CBD products company, Joy Organics, got a call from her mom, asking why their Facebook page wasn’t working. Her mother assumed the password had been changed, or that someone had switched admin permissions. When Smith tried logging on herself, she found that Facebook had unpublished the Joy Organics Facebook page, flagging the business for “promoting the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals.”

Smith tried to file an appeal, but her claim was denied. She started a petition, which has received nearly 3,000 signatures. When she reached out to contacts in the CBD industry, she learned that many other CBD companies in North Carolina, Tennessee, Colorado, and Kentucky had had their Facebook pages shut down. According to the Boston Globe, at least six CBD companies in Massachusetts saw their accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram shut down as well.

In an email on Monday morning, Facebook admitted that its team had erroneously removed CBD and hemp pages.