GROW-OPS DON'T HAVE TO BE DANGEROUS UNDERTAKINGS

The Editor,

Re: "Firefighter faces drug charges in fall," the Now, December 21.

If what we are reading in the papers is true, if anyone has the
expertise to run a so-called "dangerous" grow-op, it's a
firefighter.

Of course, that is only the case if these home gardens are actually
dangerous. Health Canada doesn't seem to think so: they issue grow-op
licences from coast to coast to coast for medical marijuana patients,
and there hasn't been an outcry over their dangers.

Indoor growing, done properly, is perfectly safe, but a well-crafted
propaganda campaign on behalf of anti-marijuana groups (basically just
the police, those experts on medical issues) seems to have infiltrated
the national conversation.

TIM MEEHAN

Ottawa