WATCH: How marijuana lights are teaching kids to love nature

Lights drugs dealers once used to give marijuana plants life are now helping grow an appreciation for nature at a center that has served at-risk youth and their parents in Dayton for more than a decade.

Here are three facts to know before watching the inspiring video above:

1.) Adventure Central, a partnership between 4-H, Ohio State Extension, the University of Dayton and Five Rivers MetroParks, is using the donated grow lights as part of MetroParks' ongoing fight for reforestation in the wake of devastation caused by the emerald ash borer and other tree killers.

Adventure Central is using grow lights seized as part of marijuana investigations to fight emerald ash borer. PHOTO / Amelia Robinson

2.) About a half dozen teenagers in one of the center's after-school programs are the driving force behind the reforestation program. Meet some of them in the video above.

3.) Adventure Central's after-school program serves about 90 children in kindergarten through high school.

Adventure Central is using grow lights seized as part of marijuana investigations to fight emerald ash borer. E'Mya Joseph is pictured. PHOTO / Amelia Robinson

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