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And Now the Left Targets Marijuana as an Enemy of Climate Change
townhall.com ^ | 8/12/2021 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 08/12/2021 3:31:56 PM PDT by rktman

Climate change is back in the news probably because a new report declared that this is a make-or-break decade to curb global warming. This is what—the seventh time we were told this was a critical decade for climate change. In 2007, these experts said that the Arctic Ice Cap would be gone by 2013. It ended up growing by over 533,000 square miles. And then, they said in the 1970s that global cooling was an existential issue as we undergo periods of glaciation. They were wrong again.

As the environmental Left goes haywire over carbon emissions, everything has been slated for demolition. Beef became a target, but not a new enemy has emerged for these green warriors: pot smokers. Yes, the marijuana business is now problematic to saving Mother Earth (via Politico):

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bloggers; cannabis; climatechange; climatechangehoax; fakescience; genderdysphoria; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; grass; greennewdeal; gullibilityindex; homosexualagenda; marijuana; maryjane; medicalmarijuana; mj; pot; weed; wod
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To: rktman
The Left is an erratic, wobbling searchlight of hate and madness. God help anyone or anything it happens to focus upon.

KTA KTF KTN

21 posted on 08/12/2021 4:37:37 PM PDT by Noumenon (The Second Amendment exists primarily to deal with those who just won't take no for an answer. KTF)
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To: rktman

New businesses in Michigan, small towns. I thought Leftists LIKED marijuana. They are such a schizoid bunch.


22 posted on 08/12/2021 4:38:19 PM PDT by madison10
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To: billorites

“Potheads are, so I’m told, a pretty conservative lot.”

More libertarian than conservative, usually, but there are all kinds.

One thing that they all have in common is that they are more than willing to ignore the government’s dictates if they think they know better. There’s definitely value to people like that in times like these.


23 posted on 08/12/2021 4:54:50 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: rktman

The article cites electricity usage. What about CO2 usage?
https://www.cannaconnection.com/blog/2098-how-to-add-co2-indoor-grow
The ideal CO₂ levels to increase the yield of cannabis plants is roughly 1,200 to 2,000ppm. Studies show that CO₂ levels of up to 10,000ppm can still significantly increase plant growth.

10,000ppm? We can’t have that! Can we?


24 posted on 08/12/2021 5:28:01 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: irishjuggler

The late William F. Buckley , George Schultz and Casper Weinberger were pro legalization of weed.

Honestly you drug warriors would make Harry J. Anslinger proud.


25 posted on 08/12/2021 6:16:20 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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I’m a fan of Bill Buckley, but he wasn’t perfect or right about everything. For example, he was likely a pretty crappy parent, based on how his son Chris turned out to be an acid-dropping Obama/Biden voter fathering a kid out of wedlock.

George Schultz was a naive old fart who was taken in Elizabeth Holmes’ Theranos scam.


26 posted on 08/12/2021 6:32:32 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler
You know I no longer drink or smoke pot. Haven't in 31 years but I've got to say you drug warriors types are so hypocritical , so myopic it defies description.
27 posted on 08/12/2021 6:44:20 PM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: rktman

Great news!
The maskers will line up behind the new prohibitionists.


28 posted on 08/12/2021 6:45:32 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (87.9>12.1 people need to wake up. Why do the vaccinated fear the unvaxed? Taxation is theft.)
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Then there’s the still-vibrant illegal market — where there are no emissions rules whatsoever — that consumes fossil fuels at an even higher rate

Legalization will save the environment.

29 posted on 08/13/2021 10:36:17 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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30 posted on 08/23/2021 1:31:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: rktman

I bet cybercurrency mining requires much more energy than grow operations. The amount of computer and computer HVAC being used for that is pretty amazing.


31 posted on 08/23/2021 1:38:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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So, if you’re suspected of something(who knows what these days) will they monitor your power usage at you domicile? LOL!


32 posted on 08/23/2021 1:48:53 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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“Compare them with the abstemious Karens who would shit a brick at the idea of anyone trying to cop a buzz.”

Nah. The Karen homeland is near the Opium Triangle, remember. Marijuana isn’t the first drug they’ve been around.


33 posted on 08/23/2021 11:31:10 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: rktman
On top of the general purpose anti-capitalism (that isn't really) and anti-freedom (that *IS* really), anybody with a bug up his/her keister about whatever might construct a climate change case against whatever. Or call it racist or both.

So don't read too much into it happening to be weed this time. /lol

34 posted on 08/24/2021 11:48:18 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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