#pot farms

[fresherbrine]

[rjzimmerman]

Stronger Protections for Wildlife Needed as California Marijuana Industry Grows

"We can't allow the expanding pot industry to snuff out imperiled wildlife like Pacific fishers. Some growers have already eliminated unnecessary poisons to control rodents and are taking steps to conserve water and energy, but the state has to make sure that all growers are behaving responsibly."

I kind of want to laugh at the irony of this......

Excerpt:

As California officials begin work this week to finalize environmental oversight of recreational pot growing, conservation groups are calling for stronger protections for imperiled Pacific fishers, spotted owls and other rare wildlife.

Following voter approval last year of Measure 64, which allows personal production and use of marijuana, the state was required to create strict environmental measures to regulate pot growers' use of pesticides, water and energy.

But the draft regulations and environmental plan released by the California Department of Food and Agriculture leave loopholes allowing the use of dangerous pesticides and fail to adequately assess the broad impacts of projected increases in water, energy and rodenticide use, according to comments filed this week by the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental Protection Information Center, Sequoia Forestkeeper and Preserve Wild Santee.

"We can't allow the expanding pot industry to snuff out imperiled wildlife like Pacific fishers," said Jonathan Evans, environmental health legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. "Some growers have already eliminated unnecessary poisons to control rodents and are taking steps to conserve water and energy, but the state has to make sure that all growers are behaving responsibly."

Under the terms of the measure, also known as The Adult Use of Marijuana Act, state regulators are required to crack down on the illegal use of water and provide funds to restore lands damaged by illegal marijuana grows.

[smokeorbake]

Pot Farms overseas...

[speeding54]

An unharvested cannabis flower grows in the Mendocino County [California] garden of Robert Cunnan, who opposes legalization of marijuana. “We came here with the back-to-the-land movement...”  Many small marijuana farmers, as it happens, see Proposition 64 as a threat to their way of life.They believe that a legal, regulated cannabis market could open the floodgates to corporatization of the industry, pushing taxes up and prices down, perhaps forcing them out of business altogether.

[criminalwisdom]

A POT PLANT CONSUMES SIX GALLONS OF WATER EVERY DAY