Growing cannabis indoors requires a lot of energy—lighting, fuel and electricity for drying, as well as access to water and nutrients to help them grow. In fact, The Washington Post recently reported that a kilo of cannabis produces as much carbon emissions as an average of 3 million vehicles. As cannabis usage becomes more widely accepted, regulators and industry leaders ... Read More
3 Benefits of Growing Cannabis Outdoors
In the past, the only way that most growers in the U.S. could produce cannabis was indoors in order to avoid punishment from prohibitive federal laws. However, now that such laws are slowly being overturned on a state-by-state basis, that stigma is starting to diminish. This means that the need to grow medicinal marijuana indoors is beginning to diminish, as well. Growing ... Read More
Does Marijuana Legalization Lead to More Addicts?
Detractors of relaxing marijuana laws certainly jump on this bandwagon – “you can’t legalize pot, everyone will be walking around high as a kite all the time.” But with full legalization in 4 states now, and medical access in 23, we can start getting a better picture of how easier access translates into addiction and other issues. Of course, alcohol and tobacco have remained ... Read More
The Tricky Business of Hemp and CBD
Ever since the cannabinoid, CBD, was plucked out of obscurity for its life-changing ability to stop seizures, the cannabis world hasn’t been the same. Neither has the hemp world. Hemp contains meager amounts of CBD, though that hasn’t stopped money hungry entrepreneurs from eking out what little there is of it in industrial hemp to sell as CBD extracts. That might be fine ... Read More
Using Organic Nutrients to Grow Top-Shelf Cannabis
Anyone who has eaten organic food understands the superior taste and quality… The same idea can be applied to cultivating cannabis. As explained in this piece from TRiQ Systems: …every successful cultivator knows organic nutrients are also key to healthy, thriving cannabis crops. One example of an effective organic nutrient is peat and sphagnum, which looks like ... Read More
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