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Title: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Solitary on July 08, 2014, 10:10:22 AM
 :wtff: Golf courses don't count. http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/water-guzzling-pot-plants-draining-drought-wracked-california-n149861 (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/water-guzzling-pot-plants-draining-drought-wracked-california-n149861)

Fixed the link
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: DunkleSeele on July 08, 2014, 10:31:11 AM
From the look of it it sounds pretty bad. I'd like to see more complete statistics of water consumption and an estimation of the impact of pot cultivations compared to the total.
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Solitary on July 08, 2014, 10:32:39 AM
My question is: How many golf courses do they have?
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: DunkleSeele on July 08, 2014, 10:37:18 AM
Golf courses are businesses exactly like pot growing or any other for-profit activity. My question is: which business offers the worst compromise in terms of benefit/cost (where the depletion of water resources are a big part of the costs)?
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Jason Harvestdancer on July 08, 2014, 12:56:39 PM
After decades of government mismanagement of water, it is the fault of the pot growers.  Makes perfect sense.
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: PickelledEggs on July 08, 2014, 12:58:08 PM
I'm pretty sure California had plenty of water shortages in the past...
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Jason78 on July 08, 2014, 02:21:30 PM
Water, it's what pot plants crave
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Nam on July 08, 2014, 02:39:15 PM
They should use milk.

-Nam
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: stromboli on July 08, 2014, 03:25:50 PM
It becomes an issue only after you've used up all your aquifers and global warming causes severe drought.  It is also a fact that golf courses are built by greedy white businessmen on Native American burial grounds. Heyokah the Trickster will exact his revenge.
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Solitary on July 08, 2014, 04:48:41 PM
Damned, and here I thought it was the Coyote.  :winkle:  :think: Tatanka will take care of the problem.
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: stromboli on July 08, 2014, 07:42:00 PM
Heyokah is Lakota. Coyote is Navajo. Same god, different tribe. Btw, I actually had a Navajo Vietnam vet friend of mine tell me that several (he named them) golf courses were actually built on places sacred to Native Americans.

Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on July 08, 2014, 07:42:51 PM
No no..everyone knows it's teh gays.. They're either causing hurricanes and tornadoes with to much rain or not enough rain and droughts. There's just no end to the suffering god will cause millions because of one little old wicked gay dude..
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: The Skeletal Atheist on July 08, 2014, 09:31:46 PM
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on July 08, 2014, 07:42:51 PM
No no..everyone knows it's teh gays.. They're either causing hurricanes and tornadoes with to much rain or not enough rain and droughts. There's just no end to the suffering god will cause millions because of one little old wicked gay dude..
*ahem*
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: stromboli on July 08, 2014, 09:52:14 PM
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on July 08, 2014, 09:31:46 PM
*ahem*

He said "old gay dude". chill out, yo.  :naughty:
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: Draconic Aiur on July 08, 2014, 10:04:55 PM
Quote from: stromboli on July 08, 2014, 03:25:50 PM
It becomes an issue only after you've used up all your aquifers and global warming causes severe drought.  It is also a fact that golf courses are built by greedy white businessmen on Native American burial grounds. Heyokah the Trickster will exact his revenge.

You know how vague you put that. lol
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: frosty on July 09, 2014, 01:50:32 AM
Lets all get high and then figure out the problem after we eat munchies then pass out on the couch.
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: AllPurposeAtheist on July 09, 2014, 04:17:46 AM
Quote from: stromboli on July 08, 2014, 09:52:14 PM
He said "old gay dude". chill out, yo.  :naughty:
I think that old dude gave me a ride hitch hiking back in 1978. I knew there was something weird about his atmospheric act..
Title: Re: Medical Pot Causing California Drought
Post by: stromboli on July 09, 2014, 07:14:17 AM
This may pose a problem, however. Getting high and playing golf may come down to choose a or b, but not both. No more smoking that number on the back nine, yo.