Forests Are Being Poisoned by Pesticides on Illegal Cannabis Farms

Green Rush Daily
By Adam DruryAug 22, 2019, 5:12 pm268 pts
The extremely dangerous pesticide carbofuran is turning up on illegal cannabis farms in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. According to experts, a single teaspoon of carbofuran is poisonous enough to kill a full-grown bear. But bears aren’t the only part of the Sierra’s delicate ecosystem that are at…

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