OTTAWA — The federal government says it is under a legal obligation to put the rights of medicinal marijuana users ahead of the rights of property owners.
Health Canada was responding to criticism from a Coquitlam woman who said she incurred $135,000 in repair costs, caused by mould and damage to her rental property’s electrical system, due to a grow-op in the basement she discovered last year.
She said she was the victim of a $20,000-a-month commercial grow-up run by someone operating with two Health Canada licenses, giving them permission to grow a limited amount of pot for personal use. She had no knowledge of the grow op nor had she given her consent for it to be operated on her property.
Source: Medical pot users’ needs trump landlord rights: Ottawa VANCOUVER SUN
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