Study: Pot smokers may lack energy, but pot growers use lots of it

A report issued this week by an energy analyst at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says that people who grow marijuana indoors use 1 percent of the U.S. electricity supply, and create 17 million metric tons of carbon dioxide every year, not whatever they exhale. After medical pot use became legal in California in 1996, according to this study, per-person residential electricity use in Humboldt County jumped 50 percent compared to other parts of the state. More here. (thanks, Miles O'Brien)