The five companies now producing medical marijuana have cut production or are sitting on huge stockpiles. (buffalonews.com)
Lessons from the Ottawa Treaty showed that the international community should not wait until there is a humanitarian crisis with huge stockpiles and thousands of casualties and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons puts that lesson in to practice. (stopkillerrobots.ca)
Dumped into huge stockpiles, tires harbor vermin, contribute to the spread of disease by creating mosquito breeding grounds, and feed huge fires: In August 1998, a grass fire ignited 7 million tires near the town of Tracy in California's San Joaquin Valley, sending a plume of soot and noxious gas thousands of feet into the air. (discovermagazine.com)