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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Marijuana is making the California drought worse 🌿Marijuana is making the California drought worse
California's most valuable cash crop, marijuana, is taking a heavy toll on some of the state's most sensitive ecosystems, with the effects ranging from erosion, contamination, threats to wildlife, and heavy water use at a time of severe drought.Â
The situation is prompting ecologists and wildlife managers to urge greater focus on bringing marijuana plots under tighter environmental scrutiny.
It's a tall order, notes a research team calling for the added focus via an article in the August issue of the journal BioScience.
Among the challenges: Money to beef up enforcement and to cover cleanup is scarce. And where some level of regulation exists, enforcement can be stymied by a disconnect between federal and state laws regarding the possession, sale, and use of marijuana.
The environmental concerns are not limited to California, notes the team, led by Jennifer Carah, an ecologist with The Nature Conservancy's office in San Francisco. Twenty-three...
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