Commercial Cannabis Cultivators in Colorado Move Outdoors

Using sunlight instead of electric lights could cut the price of pot in half.

It's scientifically proven that marijuana increases users' consumption of (or at least desire for) junk food.

On the supply side, pot cultivation also increases consumption—of electricity. Growing pot indoors requires power-sucking lights and climate-control systems. In Denver, almost half of the city's year-over-year increase in electricity use has come from its hundreds of new indoor pot farms.

As ReasonTV reported from Colorado's Cannabis Business Summit (video below), innovators in the industry are working to combat this exorbitant energy usage by supplying low-power LED grow lights. 

"Most lighting that's used in the cannabis industry right now is standardized on 1,000-watt high-pressure sodium bulbs," said Kevin Frender of Black Dog LED. Frender claims his company's LED lighting rigs use 30 percent less electricity.

But some commercial growers in Pueblo County, Colorado, are putting their facilities on an electron...

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