Looking to protect future tenants and homeowners from houses that were previously used as marijuana grow-ops, Waterloo regional police are working with municipalities to come up with a protocol for the notification of the location of marijuana grow operations. The initiative, entitled "Police Notification of Illicit Marijuana Grow operations," would standardize the process by which the police notify municipalities of the location of former grow ops.The region's municipalities, in turn, are now Police and municipalities look to develop grow-operation strategy thrashing out their own protocol to ensure that such homes, once discovered, are made safe again for habitation. [continues 247 words]
As You Sow So Shall You Reap. Unless, of Course, You're One of the Many Area Farmers Who Find a Little Something Extra in Their Fields: Marijuana Plants. For police departments, seizures of such plants are a regular occurrence, as farmers continually discover the illicit crops growing in among their cornfields. Last month, for instance, a three-day blitz by a special drug unit made up of officers from the RCMP, the OPP and the Waterloo Regional Police Service netted 5,000 plants in Waterloo, Wellington and Perth counties. Half of the plants came from this region. [continues 988 words]
