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Indoor marijuana growing uses 8% of California electricity

One more reason to legalize marijuana: Secretive indoor growing uses prodigious amounts of electricity and generates large amounts of greenhouse gases. Nationwide, indoor grow houses use 1% of all electricity with usage in California a whopping 8%. “If improved practices…

Humboldt marijuana farm diverted creek, killed fish

Let’s legalize marijuana which will, among other things, put an end to the environmental damage done by growers now. Charges for alleged water diversions, oil pollution and marijuana cultivation along a creek in the Mattole River watershed are being sought…

Private land: New frontier in California pot wars

A little-spoken-of war is taking place behind California’s fences and property lines – trespassing marijuana growers are setting booby traps, resorting to violence and vandalism, and spoiling the land by stealing water and spraying dangerous chemicals that leach into streams.…