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The clickbait headline might more accurately read “Toxic pesticides and chemicals are poisoning wildlife and water in America’s public forests.”
by souterrain 7y ago
The clickbait headline might more accurately read “Toxic pesticides and chemicals are poisoning wildlife and water in America’s public forests.”
- elmcrest 7y agoYou wouldn’t do this though for a product without proper revenue...
- ChefboyOG 7y agoThese chemicals are still used in the countries they're shipped to. If there was no revenue in cannabis, it would only change the fact that people are clandestinely growing it in American forests—tons of agriculture worldwide would still be impacted.
- callmeal 7y agoOr an even better one: “American manufactured Toxic pesticides and chemicals are poisoning wildlife and water in America’s public forests.”
- manicdee 7y agoBanned pesticides manufactured by FMC in Pennsylvania are poisoning public forests, wildlife and black market pot in the USA.
- briandear 7y agoNo, it is exclusively the illegal pot farms doing this. Some farmer isn’t growing corn in the national forests — these are illegal drug dealers and generally nasty people that would be more than happy to shoot anyone that stumbled upon their crop. These pot farmers are evil, using land effectively stolen from the public and polluted with no regard for the environment. The “non clickbait” headline obscures the truth: illegal drug producers have no qualms about illegally using land and illegally using pesticides. The key part of the story is that these are illegal pot growers — this is key to the story because if pot were less regulated, like sorghum for instance, costs would drop to commodity levels and take the profitability out of illegal operations.