Is Marijuana Cultivation Responsible For California's Drought?

DabbedOut33

DabbedOut33

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According to a new study, illegal marijuana grows are the main causes of the devastating drought that's effecting California at the moment. What researchers fail to mention are the millions of marijuana plants that are burned by the DEA every year.

Reference: https://www.marijuanapackaging.com/blog/is-illegal-marijuana-really-causing-californias-drought/
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Gunky

Gunky

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Gallons/plant statistics are meaningless. How big a plant? A very large one might take 6 gallons. A small one might take half a pint. Department of pointless statistics.

Now are cannabis growers using too large a share of California's water supply? Different question. It is certainly a crop that requires lots of water to do well. But conventional agriculture is huge in California and there are plenty of crops that require a lot of water. I doubt if cannabis water usage is more than a few drops in the bucket.
 
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Goyo

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Some idiot 200 years ago planned big cities in the middle of the desert. That is the reason for the drought. FYI if you do not know, southern ca (is a desert and) gets its water (piped in at great expense) from northern ca, nevada, and arizona. Why anyone thought it was a good idea to put so many people in a desert boggles my mind.

You want water? MOVE!
 
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Eschient

Eschient

Giga-Dweebess
I wonder how high they were when they came to that conclusion. Are illegal grows also responsible for the lack of hurricanes in Florida this year, too? Maybe that tsunami in Japan a few years back wouldn't have happened if they grew more weed out there. What was all that snow about in the Northeast this February? Punxsutawney Phil totally called that, right? Thunder is god bowling. Therefore I propose that god is vaked and couchlocked and that explains any wacky weather we have.



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Puffers

Puffers

Micro-Climate Mastermind
lwien said:
How 'bout this. It takes 4.9 gallons of water to grow.....................one fucking walnut.
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True shit, and almonds consume even more water from my understanding. The gooberment loves to play the blame game. I heard some stats the other day that California agriculture consumes 80% of our water supply, commercial and industrial another 14% residential water usage..... That last piddly 4%.

Oh but residential water usage is an enormous problem (and cannabis apparently) if you hear them tell it. We are supposed to cut our water usage by 25% and some cities and counties are imposing HUGE astronomical fines for not complying...... riiiggggght cause that gonna solve all our problems when we drop residential water usage consumption from its current out of control 4% down to their desired 3% (1/4 of 4%) :rolleyes:
 
Roth

Roth

Pining for the Mountains
Puffers said:
True shit, and almonds consume even more water from my understanding. The gooberment loves to play the blame game. I heard some stats the other day that California agriculture consumes 80% of our water supply, commercial and industrial another 14% residential water usage..... That last piddly 4%.

Oh but residential water usage is an enormous problem (and cannabis apparently) if you hear them tell it. We are supposed to cut our water usage by 25% and some cities and counties are imposing HUGE astronomical fines for not complying...... riiiggggght cause that gonna solve all our problems when we drop residential water usage consumption from its current out of control 4% down to their desired 3% (1/4 of 4%) :rolleyes:
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Agreed that agriculture needs usage restrictions too. But I just find it strange that there haven't been usage restrictions prior to this. It's not like people didn't know they're using more then what's available. Usage restrictions are a common thing in Texas.
 
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LuckySeed777

LuckySeed777

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We pretty much feed the whole country with our agriculture, why can't some of the state's that had mudslides or blizzards this past year help out? Send some water over! I have to water my "plants."
 
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