Smoking Hot New Use for Internet of Things

 Internet of ThingsHere’s an article on how the IoT applies to smart buildings, in this case, greenhouses for cannabis–yet another sign that “the times they are a’changing.”

Cannabis clearly has medical value, both in pain relief generally and in the treatment of certain conditions, e.g. glaucoma and a range of emotional disorders. In addition, there is plentiful evidence to the effect that CBDs, one of the hundred-or-so different yet related chemicals called cannabinoids, this one non-psychoactive and abundant in many strains, are effective in fighting cancer; prostate cancer victims everywhere are on daily doses of CBDs to help prevent recurrences and metastases.

Of course, far more cannabis is used recreationally than medicinally. It’s commonly argued that,  despite the lack of scientific evidence, that long-term use of pot has deleterious effects on the mind and should therefore be illegal.  This, of course, is hypocritical in the extreme.  Regardless of what science eventually shows us (it’s been under careful study for 60+ years), pot could not possibly be more debilitating on the mind (as well as auto safety, careers, relations, gun safety, domestic abuse, etc.) than alcohol.  When was the last time you heard of someone getting high and beating up his wife?

The real issue, of course, is that it’s very difficult for big business and government to make money from marijuana, as it’s grown so easily for personal consumption.

In any case, it’s always neat to see more good things happening in the use of information and communication technology to reduce energy consumption and improve efficiencies.

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One comment on “Smoking Hot New Use for Internet of Things
  1. Frank R. Eggers says:

    It is always unwise to breathe products of combustion regardless of what is burning. That includes tobacco, marijuana, Diesel exhaust, etc. etc. I also question the reasonableness of ingesting marijuana products. Whether doing so should be illegal is another matter. Sometimes making a product illegal creates more problems than the product itself; that may also be the case with marijuana. But before making marijuana fully and unconditionally legal (at least for adults), I think that we should wait a few years so we can thoroughly evaluate the results of its having been made legal where it is now legal.

    In my opinion, it has been well established that marijuana does contain some medically useful and beneficial components, some of which may not even have been discovered. However, because marijuana remains illegal, it has been impossible to evaluate its components as thoroughly as they should be evaluated. But there is a difference between using marijuana components which have proven medical benefits and inhaling marijuana smoke or otherwise ingesting unfractionated marijuana.