The cannabis industry is hiding a dirty little secret. According to Evan Mills , a California-based energy and climate change scientist, the marijuana industry has a major problem…and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better. “Legislators and energy agencies have largely turned a blind eye to the carbon footprint of indoor cultivation, which already belches out greenhouse-gas emissions equal to that from 3 million cars in America,” says Mills. In fact, just one marijuana cigarette creates over 10 pounds of carbon dioxide pollution. An entire kilogram of finished product? That produces a staggering 4600 kg of CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. As far back as 2011, the then-illicit industry was racking up an energy bill of $6 billion per year in the U.S. That’s double the energy spent by all pharmaceutical companies combined! And this was before commercial sized indoor growing facilities started popping up across the […]