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.
