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British Columbia, with a population of four million, has an estimated 20,000 inhabitants who raise a potent local marijuana known here as “B.C. Bud.”

The plants, collectively worth nearly seven billion dollars each year, account for a whopping six percent of this province’s power consumption.

The labor-intensive crop is an energy sponge thanks in large part to the 1,000 watt halogen lights, fans, irrigation pumps and other equipment needed for their cultivation. As a result, the pot growers’ energy bills are about three times that of the average consumer.

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