The average indoor grow in the average household creates over twenty times the normal carbon footprint of that household. In a time of our increasing awareness of the dangers of excessive carbon dioxide output oddly enough, or being this is America, obviously enough, just for the sake of money we seem to be able to forget about the disastrous effects of what we are doing by growing marijuana indoors, especially on a large scale. And let's not forget the excess burden upon our electrical grid as well. Think of this next summer when millions of folks will need that extra juice to keep cool and sane on a hundred-plus degree day while it just might be a collective vegetative growth cycle for thousands of large-scale indoor growing operations. The real silly part of all this is that it would be a long hot summer day. The type of day where marijuana grows best. All the light is being provided FREE by our sun yet here are the profiteers taxing the state's electrical grid en masse, boosting the total carbon dioxide output by a factor of hundreds of thousands and indeed keeping the retail purchase price of marijuana unrealistically elevated. The irony here is inescapable.

We see and hear and are availed to public service announcements by the electric companies in all the forms of media available on how to “do your part” as regards saving energy and reducing your carbon footprint. The energy companies' first and foremost suggestion to the individual consumer is to go out right away and buy buy buy the all new CFL bulbs. Because when you do you will be saving energy, saving money, saving the atmosphere and indeed little you can help save the world by purchasing these new type light bulbs. But do they discourage the purchasing of high-consumption grow lights? Heck no because all the while grow shops are opening up at a phenomenal rate all over the state doing their advertising best to get us all to grow indoors and to buy thousand-watt halide, mercury and sodium vapor lights. And don't forget your timers, fans, pumps and a whole host of other electricity-gobbling devices. The energy companies get to sell more energy, ergo make more money. So while they tell us publicly to “do our part” making themselves look like they are truly concerned about conservation their forked tongue in reality makes a profit by doing the opposite.