Today I want to write and educate you on something that is relatively new for most of us: spotting marijuana home-grow operations It is estimated that in the Waterloo Region there is a home grow operation within a 10-minute walk from every urban home. In an 18-month period, the Waterloo Regional Police Service Drug Unit dismantled over 85 home-grow operations and seized marijuana worth over $18 million. However, the trend continues. A marijuana home-grow operation is a house that has been modified in order to grow large amounts of marijuana. [continues 301 words]