Pubdate: Tue, 08 Aug 2006
Source: Langley Advance (CN BC)
Copyright: 2006 Lower Mainland Publishing Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.langleyadvance.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1248
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1008/a04.html
Author: Randall St Jacques
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/meth.htm (Methamphetamine)

DRUGS: METH DANGER BEATS POT

Dear Editor,

Russell Barth muses about the danger of fire and property damage 
possible in a grow op as compared to the explosive dangers of a "meth 
lab" [Grow-op fight fixes meth good, Aug. 1 Letters, Langley Advance].

There are tens of thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of grow 
ops across Canada. The incidence of fire in grows ops reported in the 
media seems extremely low. If a similar number of meth labs were in 
existence, the numbers of explosive incidents and the solvent fires 
would be so numerous as to be incalculable.

Langley taxpayers, which includes renters, would be better served by 
politicians and police services if they reprioritized home 
horticultural activities to the lowest policing priority until such 
time that "honest reform" can end this "insanity from another era."

Randall St Jacques

Windsor, Ontario
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