General Discussion

The huge growth of the pot market has in fact put a strain on electrical consumption and put into question progressive and environmental ideals expounded by most herb consumers.
Ironically I live in an area impacted by the loss of coal mining jobs. This has made the loss of electrical usage by those mines an issue for us as our electrical costs are determined by the usage our electrical coop consumes as a whole; irony upon irony--the more you use the less you pay.
As the mines shut down and the new pot industry grew the local management of our electric distribution coop recognized both the problems and the opportunities presented by the changing economic reality.
When building a new "grow house" entrepreneurs are now encouraged to install environmentally friendlier options for lighting and cooling of their facilities thus balancing the loss of usage we need to maintain our place the pecking order of grid consumption and encouraging the use of new technologies we will need to curb our consumption of a product largely responsible for the global climate change we are facing.
While in its infancy the marijuana industry is creating problems and also opening the door to the opportunity to solve these problems on a far greater scale.