An increasing number of houses in communities across Canada are used as indoor marijuana growing operations, or ?grow ops?. The houses undergo significant structural changes in order to be used to grow the plants; these changes can compromise the integrity and inhabitability of the house, and can require major repairs and renovations to correct. The average cost to repair a home previously used as a grow op is $41,000, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

The Ottawa Real Estate successfully lobbied the City of Ottawa and Ottawa Police Services to create a ? Grow Ops Registry? where the addresses of houses that have had search warrants executed and drug operations dismantled are published online. This service began February 1, 2008. The list can be found here:

CTV News - Possible provincial grow ops registry:

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