{"id":2901,"date":"2011-04-12T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/04\/government-laboratory-declares-potsmokers-to-be-single-greatest-threat-to-the-environment-and-human-civilization\/"},"modified":"2011-04-15T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T20:01:15","slug":"government-laboratory-declares-potsmokers-to-be-single-greatest-threat-to-the-environment-and-human-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/12\/government-laboratory-declares-potsmokers-to-be-single-greatest-threat-to-the-environment-and-human-civilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Laboratory Declares Pot Smokers To Be Single Greatest Threat To The Environment And Human Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The San Francisco Business Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity<\/h1>\n

San Francisco Business Times – by Steven E.F. Brown
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People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to a report by\u00a0Evan Mills<\/strong>, an energy analyst at\u00a0Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

After medical pot use was made legal in California in 1996, Mills says, per-person residential electricity use in Humboldt County jumped 50 percent compared to other parts of the state.<\/p>\n

In order to produce some 17,000 metric tons of marijuana this year, Mills estimates authorized growers will use $5 billion worth of energy. That works out to the output of seven big electric power plants.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the perspective of individual consumers, a single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of (carbon dioxide) emissions,\u201d Mills says.<\/p>\n

For this report, which he published independently, Mills says he didn\u2019t count the energy used in producing fertilizer, water, equipment and building materials also used in indoor pot farms.<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at the SF Business Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The San Francisco Business Times Marijuana causes global warming, uses 1% of U.S. electricity San Francisco Business Times – by Steven E.F. Brown People growing marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and they create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year (not counting the smoke exhaled) according to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}