When a pink glow lit up the afternoon sky over the Australian city of Mildura in northern Victoria, Tammy Zumowski wondered whether the apocalypse had arrived.
“She was just acting like a calm, relaxed mother, telling the kids: ‘Nothing to worry,'” she told the BBC.
“But in my mind I thought, what is that?”
Like other stunned locals, Zumowski’s mind initially ran to the strangest: an alien invasion? an asteroid?
“My mom was on the phone and you could hear my dad saying in the background, ‘I’ll hurry up and have my tea because the world is ending,
“My mom was like, ‘What’s the point of drinking your tea if the world is ending?
Another local, Nicaea Champion, thought it was a very bright red moon, before realizing that light was emerging from the ground.
“All these doomsdays were running through my mind,” he told the BBC.
“I was having a great Stranger Things moment. I was like Vecna? Are you?” Referring to the great villain of the Netflix series, he said.
But both were completely wrong.
secret farm exposed
pink skies over Mildura
Medical cannabis was legalized in Australia in 2016, but recreational use of the drug remains prohibited.
Since then, nearly 260,000 prescriptions have been approved for a variety of ailments.
According to statistics from the Australian Department of Health, the most common reason for prescriptions is chronic pain, followed by anxiety and sleep disorders.
There are some facilities for the cultivation of marijuana and Their whereabouts have been kept secret for security reasons. But now a field has been exposed.
In these fields, red light is used to help the crop grow. Blackout blinds usually close in the evening.
The farm near Mildura didn’t work on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the manufacturer Can Group.
And because it was a cloudy night, Roshni Made “Sunset on Steroids” Which could be seen from the facilities for about an hour.
“I laughed out loud … it could have been a little too cold, but They were basically just medical marijuana grow lights.said Mrs. Champion.
Zumowski said they also “laughed a lot.”
Despite her initial nervousness, she was impressed by the beauty of the light show: “I think it was great, they should do it more often.”
There has been a steady increase in the number of countries legalizing the use of marijuana since the turn of the millennium.
In the US, some 38 states have legalized the use of medical marijuana, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and approximately 48 million people in the US used the drug in 2019.
The drug is also available for people with certain medical conditions in several European Union countries, including France, Belgium and Ireland, as well as New Zealand.
