Cannabis or psychedelics promotion (adults only)
Instagram may show the video only to adults.
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What triggers it
Speaking positively about or encouraging use of cannabis/THC products or entheogens (psychedelics), dispensary business posts, CBD sales, marijuana paraphernalia, admitting to taking prescription drugs.
What Instagram says
“Content depicting marijuana paraphernalia.”
We last checked this against Instagram's page on .
How to fix it
Keep paraphernalia and positive use talk out of the video if teen and non-follower reach matters.
Good to know
Bongs, rolling papers and dab rigs in frame count as paraphernalia. Fictional or documentary context is excepted for entheogens.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the caption and the hashtags. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: looked at for this rule
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Related Instagram rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what Instagram publishes; it isn't legal advice.