New Study Seeks to Measure Environmental Impact of Marijuana Grows
While there’s been an increase in awareness of the environmental impact of cannabis production over the last several years, aided by journalists and sources in law enforcement, one sector that hasn’t weighed in on this concern as much is academia, but not for a lack of interest. In a recently published study reported earlier this week by ScienceDaily, environmental scientists from Ithaca College and the University of California, Berkeley write that “anecdotal observations [about cannabis agriculture] fuel speculation about associated environmental impacts, and there is an urgent need for systematic empirical research,” adding that marijuana’s current Schedule I classification under federal law “has stymied research on cannabis production methods and their environmental impacts.”
Authors Van Butsic of UC Berkeley and Jacob Brenner of Ithaca College explain that as states across the country have progressively reformed their rules on cannabis over the past twenty years, specialists have been...
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