Posted on 08/05/2022 4:31:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Leaders in the Democratic Party are backing legislation to reduce carbon emissions. Some of them are also sponsoring bills that would expand the cannabis industry, ranging from the MORE Act to the Safe Banking Act and now the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act just introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Co-sponsors have publicly chastised President Joe Biden for not doing enough to help in their effort.
They are seemingly unaware that although today’s cannabis may seem “green” - after all, it traps carbon dioxide in organic material and generates oxygen in the process - its similarity to other green plants ends there. Commercial cannabis is primarily grown indoors, where the electricity required for grow lamps and temperature and humidity control generates a massive net carbon footprint.
In 2012, Evan Mills, a staff scientist with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, was surprised to find an abundant stock of high-intensity grow lights and inquired what they were used for. The answer led him to a climate change time bomb that would eventually portend serious problems for our environment. His analysis at the time showed that for every kilogram of cannabis flower sold, 4,600 kilograms of carbon dioxide were produced. This is orders of magnitude greater than the ratio for food products and also substantially higher than other non-nutritive substances marketed for our consuming pleasure, including wine, beer, tobacco, and coffee.
Other studies on the problem followed, culminating in a 2021 publication by researchers affiliated with Colorado State University. Hailey Summers and colleagues corroborated Mills's perspective, finding that the cannabis industry in Colorado alone generates the carbon equivalent of 520,000 additional gasoline-powered vehicles on the road based on the average EPA estimate for fuel efficiency for 2018. Power companies have long been aware of these large energy requirements...
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then they “burn” it, I am sure that’s not good for the air either!
This’ll be swept under the rug quick enough.
Pot farmers get safe banking but gun manufacturers don’t.🤔
Preposterous notion. In Oklahoma these drug "farms" are immersed in filth with no oversight as to what goes into people's bodies. Contaminated water. Human feces as fertilizer. Heavy metals.
And after (the foolish people who've been smoking this stuff for) a decade or so, the real toll is going to be astronomical. Forget marijuana induced dementia. Forget marijuana induced psychosis. The physiological calamity will be a national crisis.
Right up until the point that it gets burned. Then it releases all of that captured CO2.
How many on the Left, consider smoking pot a favorite pastime?
Oh boy, what’s a liberal to do on this one?
Green? What a fool. When you burn it, it no longer has “trapped” carbon.
Oh, and the whole carbon thing is a hoax.
Do you know what percentage of the earth’s atmosphere CO2 is? Can you guess?
I read yesterday that the UN intentionally hid the fact that the temperature has not gone up one bit worldwide in the last 15 years. They just want to starve all of the ‘deplorables’ to death to get rid of them.
You know the rule keep them stoned and you get their vote.
Sample case California
On Fox news nite before last, a giant $1 billion illgeal marijuana farm drug bust with over 100 arrested, most charged with illegal drug felonies and middemeanors, and a few charged with illegal weapons charges, in the high desert northen end of Los Angeles county (Antelope Valley).
Atfer all were processed by the L.A. county sheriff’s office most were relaesed by the D.A Gascone’s office, without bail. The sheriff said those released, many illegals, are now out looking for another slice of land to start another illegal marijuana patch. The sheriff also said there is a high probability that their funds are coming from the Mexican drug cartels. This is George Soro’s world.
They will NEVER give this up..
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