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'''Cannabas water use''' is nearly twice that of conventional commodity crops:

'''Cannabas water use''' is nearly twice that of conventional commodity crops:

{{cquote|Three Illinois State University researchers ... found that the water demand for growing cannabis typically exceeds that of commodity crops by nearly double.<ref>https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-requires-more-water-than-commodity-crops-researchers-say/</ref>}}

{{cquote|Three Illinois State University researchers ... found that the water demand for growing cannabis typically exceeds that of commodity crops by nearly double.<ref>https://mjbizdaily.com/cannabis-requires-more-water-than-commodity-crops-researchers-say/</ref>}}

A study by the [[liberal]] Brookings Institute concluded:

A study by the [[liberal]] Brookings Institute concluded merely with respect to [[California]]:

{{cquote|The scale of the problem is staggering: Even at the end of 2020, illegal cannabis grows sucked up between 11.4 million and 36.3 million liters of water daily! The widespread illegal cultivation contributes to water depletion and conflict over water and has other bad environmental consequences.<ref>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/04/12/pot-and-water-theft-and-environmental-harms-in-the-us-and-mexico/#:~:text=The%20scale%20of%20the%20problem,has%20other%20bad%20environmental%20consequences.</ref>}}

{{cquote|The scale of the problem is staggering: Even at the end of 2020, illegal cannabis grows sucked up between 11.4 million and 36.3 million liters of water daily! The widespread illegal cultivation contributes to water depletion and conflict over water and has other bad environmental consequences.<ref>https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/04/12/pot-and-water-theft-and-environmental-harms-in-the-us-and-mexico/#:~:text=The%20scale%20of%20the%20problem,has%20other%20bad%20environmental%20consequences.</ref>}}

Almonds are considered to be unusually wasteful of water, requiring 5 liters of water to produce merely one almond.  But cannibis is just as wasteful of water,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/26/forget-almonds-look-at-how-much-water-californias-pot-growers-use/</ref> without providing the nourishment that almonds confer.

Almonds are considered to be unusually wasteful of water, requiring 5 liters of water to produce merely one almond.  But cannibis is just as wasteful of water,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/06/26/forget-almonds-look-at-how-much-water-californias-pot-growers-use/</ref> without providing the nourishment that almonds confer.