Grow Pot, Save a Tree
March 2nd, 2009 by Perry
Treehugger points out on their blog that legalization is not only good for environmentalists, it’s also good for the environment, too. Earlier last year, tFS wrote about how renegade pot farms could be a detriment to the environment.
Treehugger has a good point in that, not only would legalization eliminate the need to use potentially harmful chemicals in a clandestine fashion, with all the money made from the taxation of marijuana the state’s No. 1 cash crop, we can buy a new rainforest and just throw money at environmental problems.
Just kidding, they don’t say that at all. But seriously, DrugScience estimates 7.6 million pounds of marijuana was grown — and that’s only counting outdoors.
Cocaine Usage Ruining the Environment?
November 19th, 2008 by PerryAn author @ Treehugger is mad as hell about the effects hard drug users have had on the environment, and he’s not going to take it anymore.
Complaining about everything, from the Guatemalan forest damage caused by smuggler planes to the gradual destruction of the rainforest.
It’s a bit hypocritical since the drug traders usually don’t discern packaging based on their specific environmental effects, but the writer lists myriad harm done to the eco-system by sniffers and slammers.
The video above shows how cocaine is made in the rain forest. Although it’s in Spanish, it’s self-explanatory to understand what’s going on. I think it’s a little more alarming that the children in the video appear to be so young, and not necessarily the damage they are doing to the environment.
