on May 10, 2015
Life really is a roller coaster. One minute everything's going right and the next it all falls apart, and then you gain the strength to overcome that obstacle and things start to get easier again.
At the beginning of this year I only dreamed for working with marijuana to be possible. I then made the decision to leap into the cannabis industry through Miss High Times, instagram and here.
Things had been rough financially which led me to taking a semester off of college currently and I was getting antsy and needed to do something of my own. So I threw myself into marijuana completely. I spent every second of my day on the different websites making connections for about 6 weeks since I had nothing else going for me at the moment (you don't realize how much everything costs until you have nothing). I had no transportation and no one was hiring, this was my solution. I was meeting people who owned dispensaries and glass shops, I was meeting patients across this country and hearing their stories, I met people who grow marijuana professionally, even the people who made the chemicals to grow marijuana....I wasn't just some stoner on instagram posting pictures and videos, I was reaching out to people daily and making connections.
It was through instagram that I was inspired to create and sell my 100% organic homemade lotions using hemp. It was through instagram had found a young lady in Canada (I live in DC) who just opened her own store for handmade bath bombs and face scrubs, I reached out to her and sent a picture of my ingredients for my lotion and she ended up purchasing a large jar to see how it sells. I was making progress! I was actually successful!!
I had so much fun, I was gaining a little over 100 followers a week on instagram and talking to so many amazing people. I was over halfway to my goal, 1000 followers and I had a glass company who was going to pay me to rep their pieces on instagram. I was so close to that paycheck I could taste it.
I tried finding jobs related to marijuana in any way possible now that we legalized it in DC, but because of the way the system is set up in DC right now, you can't work with marijuana or buy it or sell it......but you can smoke it.... There are no legitimate jobs in this area related to marijuana because our government isn't allowing us to make it legitimate! We only have the black market and I didn't want to mess with that. So...instagram
That was great until I posted a picture of a nug and I was talking about how I didn't know what strain it was but it was pretty and it would make great butter to relieve my anxiety and stress.... Earlier that morning I had posted a video smoking to the song One Day, I was talking about how there is so much violence and protest so close to where I am and how I truly believe that marijuana and hemp can help reunite this nation.... Well, someone reported me. They felt that what I was posting was inappropriate. I went to log on and I was told that my account was disabled and deleted because of inappropriate behavior.
I was absolutely heart broken. I literally put my phone down and didn't touch it for the rest of the night. All of my work, gone. And the worst part is that I lost every post. I lost every statement I made, every picture, every inspirational quote I ever shared, every follower I ever gained, every friendship I formed, every video that was ever posted and every TRUTH about cannabis that was ever stated. Gone. It is like I never even existed...with the exception of a few of my screenshots.
The next day the "lawyer" attitude in me was so stirred up that I read the guidelines and the Terms of Use on instagram because there was no way what they did was right. I had never posted anything rude or arrogant nor had I ever posted any nudity whatsoever. I was convinced I had a case. I was prepared to take them to court [a little secret my dream is to be involved with a court case involving marijuana...how cool would that be? I could be in a text book! (sorry if you can't tell, I just did a dab)] I was sure that they couldn't sensor me and remove my account when I wasn't doing anything illegal, marijuana is a legal substance where I currently reside and I even made sure it said in my bio that I was in DC, a patient, and my account was 18+ only.....
Well, I was sadly mistaken. They recently reworded their community guidelines to read that you cannot post anything federally illegal.....federally......that's the catch right there. Even though I am following the law here in our nation's capital by smoking marijuana, I am breaking the federal law. Pardon my French, but how Fucked up is that?
I tried appealing the deletion but that was met by silence and removal of all mentions of @missmiranda420 on instagram.
I may be angry and hurt by the decision made....but it didn't stop me from trying again.
I have created a new instagram account @missmiranda710 and have began reposting my old stuff and I continued to tag my account until they literally removed all tags of my old account on my posts but it is really discouraging knowing I am starting all over and I have to try to build all of those relationships again.
It breaks my heart that on my old page I would post something and the least amount of likes I had gotten was 30 and I always had comments. Now I am lucky if I just have 10 likes.
It's annoying that instagram can just delete an account for no reason. I literally never had anyone hateful on my page or any negative feedback whatsoever. I have no idea how I was reported and deleted. It also upsets me that I now have to make my account private in order to avoid future deletion which means that my posts aren't able to be shared with anyone except those who choose to follow me
How are you supposed to open eyes and end ignorance if you can't share your message with those who are ignorant?
Anyways, I am truly sorry I kind of dropped off the face off the earth for a couple of days while I have been figuring a lot of stuff out (I will blog about that either later, or tomorrow) but I think my rollercoaster is on it's way up right now...in a way
At the beginning of this year I only dreamed for working with marijuana to be possible. I then made the decision to leap into the cannabis industry through Miss High Times, instagram and here.
Things had been rough financially which led me to taking a semester off of college currently and I was getting antsy and needed to do something of my own. So I threw myself into marijuana completely. I spent every second of my day on the different websites making connections for about 6 weeks since I had nothing else going for me at the moment (you don't realize how much everything costs until you have nothing). I had no transportation and no one was hiring, this was my solution. I was meeting people who owned dispensaries and glass shops, I was meeting patients across this country and hearing their stories, I met people who grow marijuana professionally, even the people who made the chemicals to grow marijuana....I wasn't just some stoner on instagram posting pictures and videos, I was reaching out to people daily and making connections.
It was through instagram that I was inspired to create and sell my 100% organic homemade lotions using hemp. It was through instagram had found a young lady in Canada (I live in DC) who just opened her own store for handmade bath bombs and face scrubs, I reached out to her and sent a picture of my ingredients for my lotion and she ended up purchasing a large jar to see how it sells. I was making progress! I was actually successful!!
I had so much fun, I was gaining a little over 100 followers a week on instagram and talking to so many amazing people. I was over halfway to my goal, 1000 followers and I had a glass company who was going to pay me to rep their pieces on instagram. I was so close to that paycheck I could taste it.
I tried finding jobs related to marijuana in any way possible now that we legalized it in DC, but because of the way the system is set up in DC right now, you can't work with marijuana or buy it or sell it......but you can smoke it.... There are no legitimate jobs in this area related to marijuana because our government isn't allowing us to make it legitimate! We only have the black market and I didn't want to mess with that. So...instagram
That was great until I posted a picture of a nug and I was talking about how I didn't know what strain it was but it was pretty and it would make great butter to relieve my anxiety and stress.... Earlier that morning I had posted a video smoking to the song One Day, I was talking about how there is so much violence and protest so close to where I am and how I truly believe that marijuana and hemp can help reunite this nation.... Well, someone reported me. They felt that what I was posting was inappropriate. I went to log on and I was told that my account was disabled and deleted because of inappropriate behavior.
I was absolutely heart broken. I literally put my phone down and didn't touch it for the rest of the night. All of my work, gone. And the worst part is that I lost every post. I lost every statement I made, every picture, every inspirational quote I ever shared, every follower I ever gained, every friendship I formed, every video that was ever posted and every TRUTH about cannabis that was ever stated. Gone. It is like I never even existed...with the exception of a few of my screenshots.
The next day the "lawyer" attitude in me was so stirred up that I read the guidelines and the Terms of Use on instagram because there was no way what they did was right. I had never posted anything rude or arrogant nor had I ever posted any nudity whatsoever. I was convinced I had a case. I was prepared to take them to court [a little secret my dream is to be involved with a court case involving marijuana...how cool would that be? I could be in a text book! (sorry if you can't tell, I just did a dab)] I was sure that they couldn't sensor me and remove my account when I wasn't doing anything illegal, marijuana is a legal substance where I currently reside and I even made sure it said in my bio that I was in DC, a patient, and my account was 18+ only.....
Well, I was sadly mistaken. They recently reworded their community guidelines to read that you cannot post anything federally illegal.....federally......that's the catch right there. Even though I am following the law here in our nation's capital by smoking marijuana, I am breaking the federal law. Pardon my French, but how Fucked up is that?
I tried appealing the deletion but that was met by silence and removal of all mentions of @missmiranda420 on instagram.
I may be angry and hurt by the decision made....but it didn't stop me from trying again.
I have created a new instagram account @missmiranda710 and have began reposting my old stuff and I continued to tag my account until they literally removed all tags of my old account on my posts but it is really discouraging knowing I am starting all over and I have to try to build all of those relationships again.
It breaks my heart that on my old page I would post something and the least amount of likes I had gotten was 30 and I always had comments. Now I am lucky if I just have 10 likes.
It's annoying that instagram can just delete an account for no reason. I literally never had anyone hateful on my page or any negative feedback whatsoever. I have no idea how I was reported and deleted. It also upsets me that I now have to make my account private in order to avoid future deletion which means that my posts aren't able to be shared with anyone except those who choose to follow me
How are you supposed to open eyes and end ignorance if you can't share your message with those who are ignorant?
Anyways, I am truly sorry I kind of dropped off the face off the earth for a couple of days while I have been figuring a lot of stuff out (I will blog about that either later, or tomorrow) but I think my rollercoaster is on it's way up right now...in a way
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my advice, start a back up page linked to your new page NOW. so all your new followers know to follow both accounts incase your main gets deleted again, and dont feel down it happens to the best... good luck, i added you too. xoxo
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