Minneapolis-Area Cops Busy Busting Grow House Ops

In Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:

• Hennepin County narcotics officers are busting more home-grown marijuana operations -- sometimes in upscale suburbs. One reason for increased home production is the decreased flow of high-grade pot from Canada since border controls tightened up after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said Sheriff Rich Stanek. Another factor is more indoor cultivation of higher-grade marijuana that's is up to six times more potent than that sold years ago, he said. Higher potency raises dealer profits and also may increase addictiveness, a drug expert said.

For more, see Marijuana growers tend potent kind of pot.

See also, Big Money, Violence Behind Minneapolis Marijuana (Hennepin County Sheriff's statistics on marijuana busts, trends) ("Local marijuana grow operations and related violent crimes are on the rise in the Minneapolis metro, according to Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek." - My Fox TV Channel 9; 12-11-07).

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For the kinds of health and safety concerns arising from using homes to cultivate marijuana, not to mention the kind of damage such operations can inflict on a home, see Beware Of Homes Used As Indoor Pot Farms & Meth Labs.

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