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Marijuana Home Explosions Should Be a Call for Legal Regulation, Not Justification for Anti-Marijuana Sentiment

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 10/04/2016 - 09:51

I opened up my news feed from the weekend last night and found a flurry of stories from around the world discussing how an illegal marijuana grow destroyed a New York City home and killed a firefighter. Illegal grow-ops may resort to tactics that can be fatal in an effort to hide their activities, and without legal status they do not have access to education and equipment that meets safety standards. Of course, that is not how the international media portrays it:

Marijuana grow-ops spawn lethal explosions across the US
- Global News, Canada 

Home-grown dopes: how marijuana labs are causing lethal explosions across the United States
- South China Morning Post, China 

Marijuana labs spawn lethal explosions across America
– The Japan Times, Japan

All of these news outlets picked up the same Associated Press article. The gist of these news stories is that as...

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Leigh Coulter, GGS Structures Inc.
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