‘What kind of grandfather needs 140 plants?’: Neighbours fed up with dozens of medical marijuana grow-ops

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CBC News knocked on the doors of 36 homes suspected of housing medical marijuana grow ops. Almost all of the houses had security cameras set up outside, and in some cases, cannabis could be smelled from the street. (Lyza Sale/CBC news) People living in several north Winnipeg neighbourhoods say they have become prisoners in their own homes since their neighbours sold their houses to new owners who have turned them into medical marijuana grow operations.

“The smell is horrific,” said Eddie Calisto-Tavares

Calisto-Tavares owns her own business and, like many, is now working from home because of the COVID-19 pandemic. She says in March she and her husband started going for daily walks around the neighbourhood and began to notice a strong odour around certain homes.

“We thought it was winter and probably the skunks are hibernating,” she said. “I started talking to neighbours and they said, ‘Well, that’s not skunks. That’s pot or marijuana.’ I said, ‘What? Well, why would it be smelling?’ And they said, ‘Because they’re growing it in our neighbourhoods,'” Calisto-Tavares said. Land title permits pulled

CBC News knocked on the doors of 36 homes suspected of housing medical marijuana grow-ops. Few looked as if someone was living […]