24 Mind-Blowing Facts About Marijuana Production in America

[joeglow3]

You thought your pot came from environmentally conscious hippies? Think again. The way marijuana is grown in America, it turns out, is anything but sustainable and organic. Check out these mind-blowing stats, and while you're at it, read Josh Harkinson's feature story, "The Landscape-Scarring, Energy-Sucking, Wildlife-Killing Reality of Pot Farming."




http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/marijuana-pot-weed-statistics-climate-change

[hobbit709]

1. Not the stuff I buy.

BS article.

[MindMover]

2. that is why I gmo = grow my own ....

[seveneyes]

3. Make it legal to grow outside anywhere on your property

Time to end the police states of America.

[Xithras]

4. Most of those are artifacts of it being illegal.

You want pot to be environmentally friendly in California? Let Central Valley farmers plant the hell out of it on legal farms. That will slash the prices, undercut the illegal sellers, and put the illicit grows out of business. Nobody is going to run illegal grows on public lands if the stuff is selling for $10 an ounce and tens of thousands of acres of the stuff is growing on the Delta islands.

[MindMover]

5. and AMEN ...

[msongs]

6. gov't controlled pot is still prohibition and price fixing nt

[Warpy]

7. That's another reason to legalize

Take the pressure off power sources and grow the stuff outdoors. It requires little cultivation unless one is carefully harvesting it before it sets seeds. With no threat from the DEA paramilitary operations, it will "scar" much less sensitive land. It does need water, a concern in semi arid regions like California. Trip wires won't be necessary and wildlife will be far less inconvenienced.

Articles like this one cause blowback since most of the problems it's attributing to the "evil" pot plants are attributable to its illegality and the necessity of indoor cultivation vs. outdoor security measures.

[TeamPooka]

8. All of these "facts" are just more reasons to legalize it.

Most of the damage to public lands is because of the prohibition.
If people or companies could just grow it on land they own without going to jail that would happen.
And several of their facts are false like the one about electricity of 4 plants grown indoors equaling 29 refrigerators.
Complete bullshit because all lights for growing are not the same.
You can grow 4 plants under a 150 watt light or a 1500 watt light.
So most of this article is un-contextualized reefer madness bullshit.
I expect more from Mother Jones quite frankly.

[TeamPooka]

9. If people were just allowed to grow in their backyards they would not have to hide it indoors.