Report: Energy-intensive indoor cultivation drives the cannabis industry’s expanding carbon footprint

      Author: Evan Mills                 https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-mills-743ba4b/overlay/photo/ Introduction Two-thirds of the 24,000 t/year of legal and illicit US cannabis cultivation takes place indoors. Industry-wide life cycle emissions are 44 Mt CO2e/year, equaling thoseof6Mhomesor10Mcars, 90%of which is associated with factory-farmed products. Energy use is four times that of […]