Canada: Princess Margaret pulls prize home from lottery over legal marijuana pot farm

The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation has pulled a prize home in Markham from its lottery after discovering that a neighbouring homeowner has a Health Canada licence to grow marijuana for personal consumption.

The organization learned Friday that the prize house, at 39 Jeffrey Nihda Cres. in Markham, was on a street where there have been multiple complaints against the licensed pot farm.

“The growing of a large number of plants in the house has resulted in an intrusive odour in the neighbourhood,” the foundation said in a news release.

“There are a number of issues tied to the neighbouring house, but all are associated with the owner’s growing of marijuana,” said foundation spokesperson Kevin Shea in a separate email to the Star. “As we are to understand, mould and other like issues are all part of that practice, just like the aroma.”

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