potheads only need munchies ,water blah ,LOL
Industrial potheads, meet the environazis.
Environazis, meet the industrial potheads.
One has to love the fact that California will soon become either a third world country...or if they’re lucky...a below sea level part of the Pacific following the big one.
At least the latter possibility will eliminate the drought problem.
This will be interesting. Two core democrat constituencies in direct conflict. Will pot trump the enviros?
60 million gallons of water per day? Wow.
There are 1100 golf courses in California which require on average 300,000 gallons each. That’s 330,000,000 gallons of water per pay.
Get rid of the gold courses.
California golf courses consume more than a third of a billion gallons of water per day. Is your problem with water usage or marijuana? If it’s with water usage, you should be making a post calling for all courses to be shut down.
I think this article is hooey. Hemp is well known for needing minimal upkeep, irrigation, pesticide, or fertilizer.
Marijuana, as a form of hemp, mostly needs to have all male plants culled to limit fertilization. The way this article is talking, marijuana uses as much water as traditional rice farming.
<yawn> "In an average year California agriculture irrigates 9.6 million acres using roughly 34 million acre-feet of water" (http://www.water.ca.gov/wateruseefficiency/agricultural/) which works out to 30 BILLION gallons a day (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot).
They got Al Capone for tax evasion.
They’ll get his great-grandson for water diversion.
Math fail: SF population @ 825K, average per capita H2O usage in SF = 88 gallons (still very low) = 72 MGD.
Which is 20% HIGHER than the 60 MGD mentioned.
Facts. They are not that hard to figure out.
Who would have guessed that potheads would break the law?
Going to come a time when between recreational crops and fuel crops, there won’t be anyone domestically raising produce.
>> “During the growing season, California “pot farms” consume 60 million gallons of water a day.” <<
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They have water meters?
Gotta call BS on their numbers. It would take dams and pumps to get that kind of volume.
The pot farms are at least 50% more useful than San Francisco.
That doesn’t seem reasonable to me that pot farming would consume more water than one of America’s largest metropolitan areas. Bath, toilet, cooking, laundering, showering, etc. per millions of people per day.
Sounds like bogus numbers to me. I’m open to correction, but it doesn’t ring true.
I’m sitting here in the corn belt and we don’t put a drop of water on crops. I start conjuring up irrigation systems, massive water costs, manpower, fertilizer, fuel, equipment, and it’s really hard for me to believe that such a crop could be profitably brought to market.
What are they going to do, burn them or sell them to Colorado?
-PJ