EVDS Professor Tang Lee is featured in the Post Media news, commenting on how owners of former grow-op homes are left unprotected by lax regulations.
"Gord McCrea and Susan Kammerle bought a home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Maple Ridge, B.C., last year on the understanding that a marijuana grow-operation that once occupied the basement had been small and that there hadn't been any major tampering with the home's infrastructure.
Provincial court and municipal documents, however, reveal that the basement grow-op busted by police in May 2008 consisted of almost 900 plants and that city inspectors ordered the replacement, cleaning, fixing or testing of the home's air ducts, gas lines, water lines, plumbing fixtures and circuits.
After reading the documents for the first time, the couple, who have two teenaged children, went silent. This information would have been nice to have from the beginning, they said.
"It's your home. It's a big investment," Kammerle said."