NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS » indoors http://kool1017.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Growing Marijuana Indoors Accounts for One Percent of U.S. Electricity Use http://kool1017.com/growing-marijuana-indoors-accounts-for-one-percent-of-u-s-electricity-use/ http://kool1017.com/growing-marijuana-indoors-accounts-for-one-percent-of-u-s-electricity-use/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:40:36 +0000 Kool Staff http://kool1017.com/?p=4820 The quasi-legalization of marijuana has produced quite an unintended side effect: Now one percent of all electricity used in the United States is spent on growing cannabis indoors.

Analysis from Evan Mills at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory also found that in California, where marijuana can be grown legally for medicinal purposes, the state's 400,000 authorized growers consume an amazing three percent of all the state's electricity while conducting their business.

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