Legalizing Marijuana in California Could Be Good for the Environment
source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/legalize-marijuana-california-environment.php
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- SalvadoreSouza
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As of 2006, there were over 21 million marijuana plants harvested in California. That's a lot of unregulated, potentially destructive farming. If buying, selling, and growing marijuana were legalized, then a whole new set of regulations could be imposed to monitor the grow centers and ensure they observed California agriculture laws. Pesticide use could be controlled, errant trash disposal could minimized, and public lands would be better protected—it would erase the need for reckless guerilla farming. Farmers would be able to plant in areas better suited for agriculture, and would disrupt fewer forest habitats as a result.
It's still a deeply hypothetical scenario—the legalization bill is still a long shot—but making marijuana legal could very well be better for the environment.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/legalize-marijuana-california-environmen...
It's still a deeply hypothetical scenario—the legalization bill is still a long shot—but making marijuana legal could very well be better for the environment.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/legalize-marijuana-california-environmen...
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- Environment, Marijuana, California, Legalization
