Nearly 4% of Denver's energy use is going to indoor cannabis production!

Workers at Colorado Harvest Company check plants in a room designed to facilitate plant vegetation. In 2016, the marijuana industry comprised 4 percent of Denver’s total electricity use. - Grace Hood/CPR

Nearly 4% of Denver's electricity is used by indoor cannabis grow operations says Colorado Public Radio. WSIA President, Jeremy Moberg, has long said that Washington's energy use for indoor cannabis cultivation is around the same percentage. Read the full article here.

"In the coming decades, many marijuana industry insiders, like Colorado Harvest Company’s Tim Cullen, expect marijuana grows to look more and more like traditional agriculture. Dark warehouses will make way for sunny greenhouses and outdoor farming operations. This is starting to happen in Pueblo, and a few greenhouses have taken root in Denver."