- Tiffany Turnbull
- From BBC News in Sydney
3 hours ago
Credit, Nikea Champion
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Mildura City residents were confused by a pink glow in the sky
As a pink glow lit up the night sky over an Australian city this week, resident Tammy Szumowski said she wondered if the apocalypse had come.
“I was just a nice mum and kept my head and told the kids, ‘There’s nothing to worry about,'” she told the BBC.
“But in my head I was like, what the hell is that?”
It was light emitted from a cannabis farm outside the town of Mildura in southeastern Australia.
But like other residents who were stunned, Szumowski’s mind initially went elsewhere: an alien invasion? An asteroid?
“My mom was on the phone and dad was saying in the background, ‘I better hurry up and have my tea because the world is ending.’
“And Mom said, ‘What’s the point of drinking your tea when the world ends?'”
Another resident, Nikea Champion, first thought it was a really bright red moon — before realizing the luminosity was coming from the ground.
“All these doomsday scenarios went through my head,” she told the BBC.
“I had a great moment on Stranger Things — I was like, ‘Vecna? Is that you?'” she said, referring to the Netflix series’ villain.
secret farm revealed
Medicinal cannabis was legalized in Australia in 2016, but recreational use of the drug is banned.
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The effects of marijuana on cognition and psychology, according to studies
There are only a few growers and their locations are secret for security reasons which is no longer the case with this farm.
Reddish lights are used to support plant growth. Normally, curtains that block the passage of light are lowered at dusk.
They didn’t work on Wednesday, a spokesman for the manufacturer Cann Group revealed.
And because the night was overcast, the lights created this effect, which could be seen nearly an hour after installation.
“I thought it was funny…it could have been something a lot cooler, but basically it was just medical marijuana grow lights,” Champion said.
Szumowski said they also “had a good laugh”.
Despite the initial panic, she was struck by the beauty of the light show: “I thought it was great you should do that more often.”
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