cannabisnews.com: New Spray Aimed At Grow Ops New Spray Aimed At Grow Ops Posted by CN Staff on July 07, 2003 at 10:55:32 PT CBC News Report Source: CBC Vancouver - There's a new product on the market to help landlords curb marijuana grow operations in their rental properties. Okanagan businessman Michael Glendinning is promoting No-Grow – a spray which uses the furnace system. No-Grow spreads spores through the house, forcing marijuana plants to go to seed, rendering them worthless. Glendinning says the $500 a year price tag is worth it. "We're trying to protect the people that are losing their life savings because of these grow operations. They do incredible damage to property." But in Vancouver, the police officer in charge of the city's drug squad isn't sold on No-Grow. Insp. Kash Heed says furnaces aren't turned on in large grow ops because the lamps for the marijuana plants already heat the home. "Personally I don't feel that it will make much difference," says Heed. However, he says the spray may help deal with smaller operations of 15 to 20 plants. Heed says the best defence for landlords is to make sure they have proper references from tenants, and to check their properties on a regular basis. INTERVIEW: The Early Edition's Rick Cluff speaks with Michael Glendinning. (Runs 3:40) http://vancouver.cbc.ca/clips/Vancouver/ram-audio/bc_pot030707.ramSource: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Published: July 07, 2003Copyright: 2003 CBCContact: letters cbc.ca Website: http://www.cbc.ca/CannabisNews Articles -- Canadahttp://cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=canada Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #11 posted by afterburner on July 07, 2003 at 20:36:24 PT: Speaking of Spray. Death-spray legal defense http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2939.html 07 Jul, 2003 Courageous lawyer Terry Collingsworth helps Ecuadorian farmers launch lawsuit against DynCorp's poison sprays. ego transcendence follows ego destruction, a regulated market trumps dead rain forests. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by freedom fighter on July 07, 2003 at 20:20:50 PT Actually , why would the landlords do that? They get paid too..to look the other way..Only fools and clowns would believe otherwise..Just simply too much greed...An ounce of fine buds equals 2 ounces of real gold..pazff [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by CorvallisEric on July 07, 2003 at 18:07:10 PT Re: spores schmores News hacks get everything technical COMPLETELY WRONG, count on it. That's exactly my complaint almost every day. Often it's a matter of reporters accepting at face value anything said.On the audio interview, the entrepreneur (Glendinning) seemed to like "spores" and only quietly admitted it's really pollen. He also seemed a little squeamish about the price, and said that people should grow in their own house and not someone else's. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by mayan on July 07, 2003 at 17:59:57 PT absurd The growers will now simply buy their own houses if need be. They certainly make enough money...thanks to prohibition. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by SoberStoner on July 07, 2003 at 17:50:56 PT HAHAHAHAHA So they are going to stop growing by.....providing people with more cannabis seeds???HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAThis has to be a joke..nobody could be this stupid...where i grew up, seedless weed was a myth (it was all pretty much ditchweed anyway)..everything i smoked for years had seeds in it...too funnySS [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by john wayne on July 07, 2003 at 17:00:51 PT spores schmores News hacks get everything technical COMPLETELY WRONG, count on it.This must be pollen. The hack thought it would sound cooler and more high tech (and less allergy inducing) if he said "spores". [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by freedom fighter on July 07, 2003 at 15:30:30 PT Very funny! All I have to do is call a furance man and pay him 50 bucks to clean up the furance..hahahaha!Spores? Yikes... crazy!pazff [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by BigDawg on July 07, 2003 at 14:08:01 PT My guess is... that what they are calling spores is nothing more than male pollen. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Treeanna on July 07, 2003 at 13:49:11 PT What a crock I have been growing for over 20 years. Not once have I ever seen any sort of "spore" cause seeding in MJ plants.No males = no seeds, period.I HAVE seen people get very sick from various sorts of spores, however...so I wonder how long it will be before some landlord loses his house by poisoning the tenants? [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on July 07, 2003 at 11:59:46 PT If Kash Heed is right... ... then this will only have an effect on the smaller grow-ops, which are mainly for personal use. They will now be forced to buy on the black market. So, in effect, this is giving more business to the very criminals they want to get rid of. Brilliant. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 07, 2003 at 11:13:24 PT This Is Too Much I can't believe that this product will ever see any success. If they put in electric baseboard heat there isn't a furnace! [ Post Comment ] Post Comment