The Long Road to Marijuana Regulation

by | Nov 8, 2013 | FOER, News

EcoNews October 2013 By Scott Greacen Under the latest so-called Cole memo, US Attorneys are directed to avoid marijuana prosecutions where there is a regulatory system in place that will keep pot away from kids, out of interstate commerce, and out of the hands of...

Is Pot-Growing Bad for the Environment?

by | Nov 1, 2013 | News

Thanks to the drug’s illegal status, marijuana farms are not regulated – with serious costs to water and wildlife.   A tax on excessive electricity use may seem like an indirect way of curbing household cannabis cultivation, but the city had to back...

Greenwashing the War on Drugs

by | Oct 31, 2013 | News

Law enforcement is now pointing to the environmental harms caused by illegal pot farms to justify the ongoing Drug War. But it was the Drug War that sent growers into California’s forests …some Northern California officials who are on the frontlines of...

This American Life: I Was Just Trying to Help

by | Aug 20, 2013 | News

Act Two: Nipped in the Bud Under California law, it’s legal to grow marijuana for medicinal purposes if you have a doctor’s recommendation. A few years ago, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman was trying to find a way to deal with the proliferation of...