Police in Calgary are smoking out dramatically more marijuana grow operations than those in Edmonton.
In 2011, officers uncovered 94 of the criminal gardens in Calgary compared to just 16 in the provincial capital, whose population is about 320,000 smaller.
The previous year, 27 of the grow-ops were busted in Edmonton while 122 were seized in the Stampede City.
It’s a pattern that dates back to at least 2007.
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Call it crystal, crank, or ice, you don’t want to live in a house where methamphetamine was cooked up. Many Americans, however, unwittingly purchase homes or rent apartments contaminated with the drug’s poisonous residue.
There have been nearly 84,000 meth lab seizures since 2004, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. But only a fraction of meth labs, as few as 5%, get discovered by authorities, according to Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.
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