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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: Episode #85 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Greta Wengert on Environmental Harms of Cannabis Grows
Description: What are the environment impacts of cannabis grows? The carbon foot print for tomato grows is 2 kilograms, much different than for cannabis grows is 3600 kilograms.
Cleaning up illegal cannabis grows cost more money than cleaning up an oil spill.
Hear from Dr. Greta Wengert, and ecologist working in California public lands and witnesses the effects of illegal marijuana grows on water theft, damage to wild life, and effects of pesticides.
Dr. Greta Wengert is the Executive Director of Integral Ecology Research Center, a non-profit research organization. Greta earned her B.S. in Natural Resources at Cornell University, her M...