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by watertom 1793 days ago
Using electricity power lights to grow plants should be illegal.

Growing a recreational drug using lights is beyond criminal.

We need to start charging for electricity based on type of usage.

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The absolute hubris of you shit posting on the internet using electricity but saying growing plants is wrong
> … "recreational drug" …

Clearly you missed the news. Little seizure suffering kids are now not having seizures who were previously not being helped by pharmaceuticals (allowing normal lives where all they had to look forward to before was certain death). Cancer patients are finally getting some relief from the misery of chemotherapy. Many people are getting pain relief where nothing worked for them before.

Just because it's used recreationally does not mean it has no medicinal value (despite it's Federal classification as such). You may want to educate yourself on the history of how (and why) it became illegal in the first place, and how much science progress and study has been actively suppressed or entirely prevented surrounding it.

Water is a recreational drug. It cure many ills, is used as a primary ingredient in many medications, and people go swimming and surfing and boating in it all the time.

Using electricity power to pump water should be illegal.

Pumping a recreational drug using electricity is beyond criminal.

We need to start charging for electricity AND water based on type of usage.

I don't think I'll accept such extreme authoritarianism. It's quite a thing to want so much state control over peoples' lives.
FYI electricity rates are the highest for residential use. If they started charging small-time home growers as commercial enterprises (on par with factories for example) they would pay way less.
sounds good

let's start by charging extra to post these kinds of comments :^)

It’s more that it’s hard to control pollination outdoors so a huge chunk of your crop will be worthless males