They use a lot of electricity growing that crap, something like 37,000+ Kw hours versus a normal American household usage of 30 Kw hours over the same time period.
Grow room electricity for cannabis is 1% of all US power consumption. Find out why marijuana uses so much electricity. Legal in 31+ states.
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According to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC), indoor commercial cannabis production (also known as a cannabis grow room) can consume
2,000 to 3,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy per pound of product.
What’s the Cost of Electricity to Grow Cannabis?
Let’s do some
quick math that shows how much you’ll spend on electricity to grow cannabis, also known as marijuana. For our example, we’ll use Massachusetts. This is one of the states where medical marijuana is legal, and electricity is deregulated. In Massachusetts, the average commercial/business price per kilowatt hour is 16.14 cents (
EIA, April 2019). Burning through 3,000 kWh will run you around $484 (3,000 * .1614). According to
industry resources, an ounce of marijuana in Massachusetts costs $340. That means a pound of marijuana would generate around $5,440 in retail revenue. So $484 in electricity for 3,000 kWh, to grow one pound of marijuana, generating $5,440 in retail revenue. (And don’t forget, these grow rooms are typically wholesalers, not retailers.)
That’s the amount and cost of electricity to produce just one pound of marijuana.
The criminal cost advantages:
Foreign gangs are finding that black-market marijuana is profitable even in states that have legalized cannabis.
www.nbcnews.com
Federal officials allege that legal recreational marijuana states like California, Colorado and Washington, where enforcement of growing regulations is hit-or-miss, have been providing cover for transnational criminal organizations willing to invest big money to buy or rent property to achieve even bigger returns.
Chinese, Cuban and Mexican drug rings have purchased or rented hundreds of homes and use human trafficking to bring inexperienced growers to the United States to tend them, federal and local officials say.
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In El Paso County, NBC News witnessed firsthand the damage a commercial-scale cannabis grow can do to a home otherwise built for an average American family. Growers pose as legitimate renters, and by the time authorities disrupt their operation, homes have been gutted and trashed.
"We've fallen through floors," U.S. Drug Enforcement Angecy Special Agent Randy Ladd said. "The electrical damage, they draw so much current that you'll see, in some places, the wires are fused inside of the electrical box. And — a lot of people — they don't wanna pay the high electric bills. So what they do is they take jackhammers and pickaxes and they cut through the foundation of the house, so that they could steal the power."
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The workers often fly from China to Belgium, and from Belgium to Mexico, before making asylum claims at the border and then disappearing by the time they’re scheduled to tell their stories in court, Ladd said. Often when grow houses are raided, immigration fugitives are discovered, he said.
They wreck 10's of thousands of houses. Of course Burb Brat dopers could care less what kind of scum they're filling the pockets of.
