DRUGS: METH DANGER BEATS POT

Dear Editor,

Russell Barth muses about the danger of fire and property damage
possible in a grow op as compared to the explosive dangers of a "meth
lab" [Grow-op fight fixes meth good, Aug. 1 Letters, Langley Advance].

There are tens of thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of grow
ops across Canada. The incidence of fire in grows ops reported in the
media seems extremely low. If a similar number of meth labs were in
existence, the numbers of explosive incidents and the solvent fires
would be so numerous as to be incalculable.

Langley taxpayers, which includes renters, would be better served by
politicians and police services if they reprioritized home
horticultural activities to the lowest policing priority until such
time that "honest reform" can end this "insanity from another era."

Randall St Jacques

Windsor, Ontario