No more growing medical marijuana at home in Surrey
Posted June 28, 2011 6:59 am.
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SURREY (NEWS1130) – If you have a medical marijuana permit, grow your own plants and live in Surrey, you will soon have some new rules to follow.
Mayor Dianne Watts says it’s all about public safety. “They shouldn’t be in residential areas, they need to be in other areas.”
Until now, Watts says there were no rules on where people could grow their pot plants, or what safety precautions need to be taken.
“So you don’t have the dispensaries, stand alone dispensaries, you don’t have those, the production of medicinal marijuana within neighborhoods. There’s got to be some criteria in terms of just fire safety issues.”
She adds that a lot of work needs to go into a building to make it fire-safe. “What we want to do is make sure that there is proper ventilation, there’s proper sprinklering, (that) the proper measures are in place for the production.”
Registration, fees and building permit rules all still need to be worked out.
