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California Marijuana Boom Destroying 25% of Stream Flows

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 07/28/2015 - 08:45

As Breitbart News reported in “Pot Tax: Sacramento Politicians ‘Jonesing’ for a Spending Fix,” the Democrat-controlled California Legislature is desperate for marijuana taxes, which could arise from a 2016 ballot initiative legalizing marijuana, in hopes of gaining a consistent new tax revenue source.

However, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) estimates that illegal pot growing is drying up watersheds and causing some at-risk fisheries to approach collapse.

Department of Fish and Wildlife officials estimated that marijuana production on California public lands has increased by 55 to 100 percent in fragile north coast watersheds over the past five years. This boom is destroying fisheries in some California rivers and streams that have dried up.

A CDFW-sponsored study of four northwestern streams found that some illegal marijuana groves consumed 20-to-30 percent of stream flows during the “dry summer low-flow season–a crucial period for salmon and other species–as well as marijuana...

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