COMPANY PITCHES WEAPON IN GROW-OP FIGHT

A new product designed to give house renters the ability to diffuse
marijuana growing operations was revealed to the media Tuesday in
Abbotsford. "It's pretty simple - it's just pollination," Michael
Glendinning, spokesman for No Grow, said Tuesday.

Glendinning said his company's new product, through the release of spores
into a household's ventilation system, will pollinate pot plants, having
them produce seeds instead of the THC-rich buds that are grown illegally,
then bought and sold on the black market.

"Seed is worthless on the market. It's bud that's the cash crop,"
Glendinning said.

He said that in testing his product, pot plants went to seed within 48
hours of the airborne powder being sprayed into a ventilation system. "It's
quick. It's effective," Glendinning said.

The product is essentially hemp spores mixed with finely ground flour that
is propelled into the air using a spray can and CO2 cartridges.

"There's billions and billions and billions of [hemp] spores in just three
grams of this product," the pitch man said. "We buy it from a legalized
hemp-growing operation."

He said hemp spores sprayed into a house will last for up to one year
before another spraying is needed.

Glendinning added that if one spore attached itself to one plant, the
entire crop would be ruined.

He chose Abbotsford to demonstrate how the product is used because it is
the centre of B.C.'s pot-growing industry.

"This is the Mecca. This is where it's all done," he said, referring to the
Vancouver-to-Hope corridor.

In an older Abbotsford home that he said was formerly a marijuana growing
operation, Glendinning walked down to the furnace.

"All the venting has to be taken out of the house," he said as he pulled
the furnace filter out.

Glendinning said home owners who rent out their properties are his target
market and that each client who spends $495 a year or $35 a month for the
service will display serial-numbered stickers that declare the house is a
"No Grow" house.

"We're trying to protect the renters and the homeowners," Glendinning said.

He said there are five owners of the company, though he would not say who
they were.

"The reason I'm being vague is because we've been getting threats," he
said. "[Growers] don't like our presence in the community."

Abbotsford Police Department had a couple of its officers out for the
demonstration, more out of curiosity than anything. Police spokesman Const.
Shinder Kirk said anything helps but added, "we don't endorse any product."