![]() ![]() "These aren't neighborhoods where they would stand out." "They can go in and basically fly under the radar," said Ruth Porter-Whipple, spokeswoman for the Atlanta field division of the Drug Enforcement Agency. (In fact, the phenomenon has inspired a cable TV show, "Weeds," starring Mary-Louise Parker as a single mom who grows and deals pot out of her suburban home.)Ĭrackdowns in Canada and elsewhere have apparently led some operators to move into parts of the United States where the public and police are not as familiar with the operations and less likely to detect them, authorities say. Indoor pot farms also have been discovered in recent months in residential areas of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina and Florida. In the past six weeks alone, more than 70 have been uncovered in northern Georgia - nearly 10 times last year's total for the entire state. ![]() Grow houses have been a problem for years in California and Canada, but investigators are now seeing scores of them in the South and New England. Typically investigators find an empty home, save a mattress, a couple of chairs, some snacks in the fridge and an elaborate setup of soil-free growing trays. "That doesn't give you a really good feeling."Īround the country, investigators are increasingly seeing suburban homes in middle-class and well-to-do neighborhoods turned into indoor marijuana farms. I guess that's the idea," said Doug Augis, who lives with his pregnant wife and a toddler in Coldwater Creek. ![]()
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