{"id":3697,"date":"2016-12-30T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2020-06-09T23:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T23:09:49","slug":"marijuana-related-product-complaints-submitted-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/marijuana-related-product-complaints-submitted-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana Related Product Complaints Submitted to the FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)&#8217;s website, their mission is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><strong>To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), you are able to request complaints received by the FTC about certain products. For the below, I requested the complaints submitted by consumers, about marijuana related products. This would include complaints about marketing, labeling and even advertising.<\/p>\n<h3>Document Archive<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ftc\/2017-00204.pdf\">FOIA Response for Complaints submitted January 1, 2015 to to November of 2016<\/a> [2 Pages, 1.2MB]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/excel.gif\" \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/ftc\/2017-00204.xlsx\">Complaints submitted January 1, 2015 to to November of 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)&#8217;s website, their mission is: To prevent business practices that are anticompetitive or deceptive or unfair to consumers; to enhance informed consumer choice and public understanding of the competitive process; and to accomplish this without unduly burdening legitimate business activity. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,2],"tags":[579,960,962,961,876],"class_list":{"0":"post-3697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-controversies","8":"category-government","9":"tag-complaints","10":"tag-consumer","11":"tag-federal-trade-commission","12":"tag-ftc","13":"tag-marijuana"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/6-9-2020-4-09-06-PM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}