The increasing numbers of what they call ‘grow houses’ or the indoor marijuana farms in middle-class neighborhoods of US, indicate the drug problem is moving fast into the suburbs.
Street drugs like crack cocaine and heroin tend to receive the most media attention as the effects of dependence are shocking and devastating however there’s one more in this long running list of street drugs called Northern Lights, Ontario Hydro, and B.C. bud - a potent form of marijuana cultivated in sprawling ‘grow houses,’ with each plant yielding $4,000 on average per harvest, that works out to about $3.2 million per year, considering the plants can be harvested every three months.
Indoor nurseries with high-tech lighting and temperature controls are turning a shove into the national attention in USA. Police this month raided an utterly ordinary-looking redbrick house on the block and broke up a pot-growing operation with 680 plants arrayed under bright lights.
Mind your own business and respect each other’s privacy provides ideal conditions for growing marijuana in the well-heeled suburbs that was once hidden in farming communities.
This building high-tech grow operations begin to question whether intolerant attitudes and stringent laws enacted towards marijuana is adding any good to lessen the drug boom.
