From Huffpost:Marijuana pollution too dangerous to clean up?

[kurtzapril4]

Interesting article from Huff Po on the environmental damage caused by illegal pot farming.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/01/marijuana-pollution_n_3686627.html?ref=topbar

[chimpymustgo]

1. Legalize it. Regulate it.

[unhappycamper]

2. Things that are difficult to clean up:

Agent Orange
Depleted uranium
open burn pits
toxic water

[kurtzapril4]

6. none of these things

have armed guards protecting them.

[tkmorris]

11. That's why you make it legal

Then you won't have this kind of waste being produced OR armed gangs looking to profit from it.

[L0oniX]

10. Exxon Valdez, Deepwater Horizon, Love Canel, Hanford ...oh ...and Chernobyl.

[Go Vols]

16. +1000

[kestrel91316]

3. Cannabis can be grown organically. It isn't the cannabis that is the

problem, it is the industrial agriculture practices that are the problem.

[Dawson Leery]

4. There is waste with anything which is grown or produced.

[kurtzapril4]

5. But the reason this waste is happening

is because growing and selling marijuana is still illegal in this country. Obviously, it should be legalized. The governor of my state signed into law a Medical Marijuana law just today. The law goes into effect Jan. 01, 2014.

[Comrade Grumpy]

13. And congratulations to you in Illinois on joining the medical marijuana states.

[SalviaBlue]

7. Make it Legal

next problem?

[kurtzapril4]

8. Yep. No argument here! n/m

[Kurska]

9. Legalize and organically grow

Problem solved

[mick063]

12. WTF?

We are ravaging the planet because of pot farms?

My god. That is the last straw.

[NewThinkingChance40]

14. darn illegal pot farms...

if only there was a way to get rid of them...make them not illegal anymore?

[Comrade Grumpy]

15. This article repeats the law enforcement canard about Mexican cartel involvement. Not so:

ONDCP ADMITS GROWING BY MEXICAN "CARTELS" IN CALIFORNIA A MYTH

Posted January 4th, 2013 by canorml_admin

January 3, 2013 - For years, law enforcement officials have been blaming Mexican "cartels" for illegal marijuana growing in California's national forests. For years, Cal NORML has told the press that there is no evidence of any organized "cartel" involvement in domestic MJ production. Rather, production is highly disorganized, with many teams of Mexicans – as well as non-Mexicans - working independently as hired growers for smaller scale, competitive, decentralized groups.

Finally, the Drug Czar's office has acknowledged that the "cartel" narrative is a myth devised by law enforcement to help secure federal funding. (See below.)

When will the ONDCP also acknowledge that the whole problem of illegal marijuana growing is itself an artifact of the federally funded policy of prohibition?

- Dale Gieringer, Director, Cal NORML www.canorml.org [phone].

Source:
Roots of pot cultivation hard to trace
CALIFORNIA 'Cartel grows' might not involve drug gangs after all
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Excerpt:

Tommy Lanier, director of the National Marijuana Initiative, part of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, said there was scant evidence that the cartels exerted much control over marijuana growing in the national forests.

"Based on our intelligence, which includes thousands of cell phone numbers and wiretaps, we haven't been able to connect anyone to a major cartel," he said.

Lanier said authorities have long mislabeled marijuana grown on public land as "cartel grows" because Mexican nationals are arrested in the majority of cases, and the narrative of fighting drug cartels helps them secure federal funding.

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[Go Vols]

17. #1 per plant here

Plant Productivity (grams)
Best State Grams/Plant
1 Tennessee 199.45
2 Alabama 198.47
3 Hawaii 198.04
Worst State Grams/Plant
48 Minnesota 108.52
49 Wyoming 102.97
50 Alaska 100.77

California is 13th with 180.51g per plant

Plant Productivity ($’s)
Best State $/Plant
1 Tennessee $706.18
2 Alabama $702.73
3 Hawaii $701.17
Worst State $/Plant
48 Minnesota $384.24
49 Wyoming $364.73
50 Alaska $356.77

California is 13th with $639.12 per plant



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