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Growing an Ounce of Pot Indoors Can Emit as Much Carbon as Burning a Full Tank of Gas

Outlet: Smithsonian

19 Mar, 2021

Smithsonian: “Policymakers and consumers aren’t paying much attention to environmental impacts of the cannabis industry,” Jason Quinn, an engineer at Colorado State University and senior author of the study, tells Dharna Noor of Gizmodo.

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