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As if America's legalization project didn't have enough on its plate: social, political and legislative hurdles. Fighting stigma. Banking issues. The spectre of Big Cannabis swallowing cottage producers. But there's another, massive problem that the industry hasn't yet tackled: what legal cannabis could do to the planet.
"If marijuana producers continue to use energy at current rates, their electricity use in the Northwestern states alone will nearly double from 130 megawatts in 2015 to 237 megawatts in 2035," according to new data from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. It's estimated that 1% of America's energy consumption is now attributable to legal growing operations.
To grow plants on the scale necessary to supply both medical, and recreational markets requires a lot of energy: and we mean a lot. According to some estimates, producing enough cannabis for a single joint takes an amount of energy equal to burning a lightbulb for 25...
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