Peter Kenter from the Daily Commercial News recently interviewed Fisher Environmental on how marijuana grow-ops damage buildings. Below is an excerpt from that article.
The stereotypical marijuana grow-op involves a house
in a small town crammed to the rafters with marijuana plants and
greenhouse paraphernalia. But the RCMP estimates there are at least
50,000 marijuana grow-ops in Canada alone, and as many as 15 per cent of
them are located in commercial or industrial buildings.
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| Visible Mould from a Marijuana Grow-op |
“One of the biggest busts in Ontario history
occurred at the abandoned Molson Brewery in Barrie, in 2004 where police
seized 30,000 plants,” says Gordon Onley, business development manager
with Fisher Environmental Ltd. of Markham.
The company has recently established growophomes.com as a
central database to help prospective buyers of residential and
commercial real estate to identify properties used for illegal drug
operations.
“There are various lists of these properties
available across the country, but we’re attempting to make it easier for
buyers to identify properties used as grow-ops,” says Onley.
In a typical case, a grow-op is located in a rented
or abandoned property where growers often perform major remodeling to
create a property suitable for marijuana cultivation.
Read the entire article: http://www.dcnonl.com/article/id49896
