[gmanwho]

^^^^^^^^

[BiG H3rB Tr3E]

Legalize it and let me set up large fields of solar/wind and greenhouse grows...

[MMJcali]

yea id love to have a nice big field and use the sun if I could, but damn...I have to grow in this tiny ass closetmaid dresser.

its your fault, uncle sam.

[Mountain High]

I'm with Big Herb. Greenhouses lined up uniform like suburban neighborhoods.

[Gypsy Nirvana]

Estimated Value of the yearly Cannabis crop = $40 billion?


.......isn't that what they spend on the D.E.A?

[Sam_Skunkman]

No Gypsy,
That is how much they receive in bribes each year....

-SamS

[jack Haze]

It's amazing the energy spent trying to alter facts and keeping Cannabis Illegal. This is a perfect example of exaggerated claims.

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...html?ana=e_pft


People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by Evan Mills, an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
After medical pot use was made legal in California in 1996, Mills says, per-person residential electricity use in Humboldt County jumped 50 percent compared to other parts of the state.
In order to produce some 17,000 metric tons of marijuana this year, Mills estimates authorized growers will use $5 billion worth of energy. That works out to the output of seven big electric power plants.
Much of the carbon dioxide produced by the industry comes from transportation, though the need for lights “500-times greater than recommended for reading” also uses a lot of power and generates a lot of pollution. Air conditioning, ventilation and humidity control also contribute.
In California, some 400,000 authorized growers use about 3 percent of the state’s electricity for their business.
“This corresponds to the electricity use of 1 million average California homes, greenhouse-gas emissions equal to those from 1 million average cars, and energy expenditures of $3 billion a year,” Mills says. However, since California is such a green state, it only generates 20 percent of national carbon dioxide emissions from pot growing, while using 70 percent of nationwide energy for this industry.
“From the perspective of individual consumers, a single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of (carbon dioxide) emissions,” Mills says.
For this report, which he published independently, Mills says he didn’t count the energy used in producing fertilizer, water, equipment and building materials also used in indoor pot farms.

Read more: Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity | San Francisco Business Times

[MrBluntfaced]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=209604

[Max Headroom]

another hit-piece from the propaganda mill.

and puuh-leeze, if i hear more about this stupid CO2 scam, i'm gonna puke.

but what makes me really sick, is the constant effort by the industry to put the blame for pollution on the CONSUMER!

WE have to save energy, WE have to recycle, WE have to pay tax on emissions, when in fact the vast majority of pollution and water consumption is caused by INDUSTRY! they use (IIRC) 2/3 of the drinking water! for what?!

i didn't ask for singing, wall-mounted plastic fish to be produced by the ton! i didn't ask for cell phones that by design last a year and then are (toxic) garbage!
i didn't ask for all that ludicrous, useless crap that fills the global mall, while billions starve.

let's put the blame where it belongs - industry and their totalitarian mercantile system (capitalism)!

(and let's not forget the 2000+ atmospheric nuclear detonations since 1945 - i'm sure THAT pollution is negligible compared to those evil, evil marijuana farmers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY

puke.

[jack Haze]

My bad...3 lashes for my not paying attention...