seattle, wa aims for safe marijuana cultivation
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Seattle hazardous waste pros are teaming up with various businesses involved in the booming cannabis cultivation industry. Learn about the different types of hazardous by-products that are produced during the grow and testing process and where they go after they are disposed of.TRANSCRIPT
MARIJUANA CULTIVATION
SEATTLE HAZARDOUS WASTEREMOVAL PROS PROMOTE SAFE
WASHINGTON’S LONG ROAD TO LEGALIZATION
1972
filed to liberalize Washington cannabis laws
INITIATIVE-2641976U.S. v. Randall - medical necessity defense for cannabis recognized
1979
creates the Controlled Substances Therapeutic Research Act
HB-259
1996
creates funding for two WSU
medical cannabis studies
SB-6744
1997INITIATIVE-685
“drug medicalization” initiative fails
1998
INITIATIVE-692WA State Medical Use of Marijuana Act, passes by 59%
Senate Joint Memorial 8030 - asks federal
government to downgrade cannabis to Schedule II2003
cannabis becomes Seattle's lowest
INITIATIVE-75
2004The Hemp
and Cannabis Foundation - writes medical cannabis authorizations
2010SB-5798
expands who can authorize the medical use of cannabis
2012
LEGALIZES MARIJUANA FOR MOST ADULTS IN WASHINGTON
INITIATIVE-502
RX
law enforcement priority
Like most industries, marijuana production can also create toxic waste. In many ways this is unavoidable; however, Washington growers follow EPA guidelines and work with a professional hazardous waste disposal company to ensure that the waste is removed responsibly.
All usable marijuana for sale in Washington must carry a warning that discloses all
pesticides, herbicides, fungicides or other compounds used for pest control or plant
disease in production or processing.
PUGET SOUND IS A LEADER IN ECO-FRIENDLY MARIJUANA CULTIVATION
ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF CANNABIS GROWTH
Diesel fuel consumed for cultivation
Biodiesel fuel made with hemp greatly slashes
noxious emissions
Methanol concentrations 24% >
Incinerated for heating value
recovery
$14,900-$17,700 - cost to rehabilitate land per acre damaged by illegal marijuana growth
Legal cultivators can now produce in these areas following
environmentally friendly guidelines
46,000 – number of high-intensity discharge (HID) bulbs used in WA each year for indoor cannabis cultivation
Recycled by hazardous waste pros to produce
new HID bulbs
Fertilizer waste water
Public water treatment plants or solidified with binding agents
and disposed of in landfills
Release of toxic chemicals (herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides)
Contained using the solidification/
stabilization method
High BTU containing products (Acetone, Glycol Ether, some oil-based paints)
Blended then burned as fuel for an industrial
furnace or cement kiln
Toxic soils Contained using the solidification/
stabilization method
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Sources: whitehouse.gov, WA State Legislature, Methanol Institute, EPA.gov, apps.leg.wa.gov
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