GROW OPS 'STINK', LOCAL RUNNER FUMES

Dear Grow-Op Owners,

Venting your grows while I'm out running stinks and pollutes the air I breathe.

The provincial and municipal governments are being negligent in the
fight against organized crime.

I'm a runner and I run 30 to 50 km a week, and during most runs I
come across five or more grow-ops venting. This interferes with my
right to breathe in fresh air and compromises my health and well
being. It appears as though these grow-ops are so sophisticated that
they vent into the sewers so that it is nearly impossible to
determine what home they are coming from.

With the governments' complacency in choosing not to seek out and
shut down grow-ops within our communities they're saying it's okay.
Growing marijuana is not a victimless crime. It negatively affects
communities, property values, and sends out the wrong message to
children by saying grow-ops are okay, and we have to accept that
they're everywhere.

I further believe that no good can come from the use of marijuana,
with the exception of medicinal purposes of which should only be
grown in government facilities where production can be regulated.

Those who use marijuana use it primarily as an escape mechanism to
numb feelings that they avoid dealing with. It is detrimental to
society, especially when it starts to impact the lives of those who
do not use drugs; the encroachment into my life and those of my
children is intolerable. I will not let organized crime take over my community.

Heather Fisher,

Surrey