Canadian Potheads

[Dr. Shane]

Canada cuts power lines to battle cannabis

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t's not hard for police to identify the pot growers in this western Canada town: They merely scan residents' utility bills to determine who is using a lot more power than the average homeowner.

Armed with that information, local authorities cut the power off to the home of the suspected offender, often leaving scores of pot growers without the artifical light and water needed to cultivate their home-grown cash crop.

British Columbia, with a population of four million, has an estimated 20,000 inhabitants who raise a potent local marijuana known here as "B.C. Bud."

The plants, collectively worth nearly seven billion dollars each year, account for a whopping six percent of this province's power consumption.

The labor-intensive crop is an energy sponge thanks in large part to the 1,000 watt halogen lights, fans, irrigation pumps and other equipment needed for their cultivation. As a result, the pot growers' energy bills are about three times that of the average consumer.

All that hydro energy being consumed by potheads could be sold to other areas that produce eletricity with coal or natural gas. Shame, shame, shame. Not good/

[Bravus]

Well, of course, without the misguided 'War on Drugs' they could just grow the weed out in the sunlight as God intended.

[olger]

Duuuuuud..

[Dr. Shane]

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without the misguided 'War on Drugs' they could just grow the weed out in the sunlight as God intended.

I have started a new thread in the Politics section about the "War on Drugs".