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2011-04-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity

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Posted by tipper 2011-04-14 06:25|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Whoa! Who let this cat out of the bag?

But maybe the point, (in San Franciso, anyway), is that it is a trifling matter, only 1%. Not nearly as bad as those nasty powerplants.

So why use that nasty electricity to generate artifical light to grow pot? Why not use good ol' California sunshine? Not fast enough?

Posted by Bobby 2011-04-14 07:30|| 2011-04-14 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Ummm , then the people could see and destroy them?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-04-14 08:05|| 2011-04-14 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 In California, some 400,000 authorized growers

That must make it California's biggest industry.

Posted by phil_b 2011-04-14 08:13|| 2011-04-14 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Reminds me of the story of the FBI finding a large stand of "GRASS" and spying on it for months,
Finally an old farmer came out with his tractor and bush hog, he proceeded to cut them down.

The Feds rushed over to stop him Yelling "What are you doing".

The farmer stopped his tractor and repied

'Cutting the weeds, they grow every year, and I cut them each year"
(Marijuana IS a Natural weed.)

The Feds were Pissed, they'd watched this "Plot" for months, and it wasn't a plot, Just weeds.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-04-14 08:23|| 2011-04-14 08:23|| Front Page Top

#5 So we need to add legalizing pot growing to the list of ways to save the environment (gotta be better than mandating curly-fried light bulbs.)

Posted by Glenmore 2011-04-14 09:00|| 2011-04-14 09:00|| Front Page Top

#6 To start with, AZ goes medical marijuana legal today.

Back in 1972, there was a documentary called "Weed" which was unintentionally hilarious. One part was interviewing a Midwest highway patrolman, as he took the crew through a wild marijuana patch. He estimated that over a four State area there were some 1m acres of this, what he called "Kansas utility-grade grunt weed."

Then, the crew went to Thailand, where some of the highest quality marijuana in the world was sold in bunches on the street, as the narrator held up a huge bunch, still on the stems, and excitedly said that it was just 25 cents!

But right then, the camera work got rather sloppy, and they didn't film any more for two weeks. The narrator then said, looking very tired, with red and bleary eyes, that it was time for them to return home to the US.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-14 09:09|| 2011-04-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 And in other news, Montana's Democrat governor vetoes Republican legislation to overturn the popular 2004 voter initiative approved medical marijuana law.

Schweitzer vetoed the bill Wednesday along with several others he called frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people of Montana.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-04-14 10:27|| 2011-04-14 10:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I had this article saved a while to use!

Researchers argue 'addiction' a poor way to understand the normal use of drugs

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-04-14 10:50|| 2011-04-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#9 I dunno about that carbon dioxide claim. Wouldn't the oxygen produced the plants themselves offset the carbon dioxide?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-04-14 11:55|| 2011-04-14 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 I dunno about that carbon dioxide claim. Wouldn't the oxygen produced the plants themselves offset the carbon dioxide?

Some growers artificially increase the CO2 in their grow room. The plants grow faster and larger as a result -- CO2 is plant food, after all.

Posted by Jock the Salmon 2011-04-14 12:15|| 2011-04-14 12:15|| Front Page Top

#11 I have a hard time believing the !% of US electricity.

It seems to me that the LBNL is based on an increase in use in Humboldt county and was SWAGged and extrapolated beyond the validity of the data.

It wouldn't be the first time LBNL has done a wild eyed study and released the results before it could be peer reviewed.

Posted by lord garth 2011-04-14 13:08|| 2011-04-14 13:08|| Front Page Top

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