With the full legalization of recreational cannabis expected in just months, the country's real estate agents are warning that provisions allowing for home cultivation of marijuana plants could undermine property values. The Liberal government said it plans to limit home marijuana growers to four plants per household. The government initially intended to limit plants to 100 centimetres in height, but the House of Commons approved an amendment that removed such a restriction. "People voted for the legalization of cannabis [in the last federal election] but home-growing is a whole different thing and it unleashes all kinds of problems ... Hydro found that more than 40,000 homes in that province were being used to grow cannabis indoors — a number that is projected to increase when criminal sanctions are removed as a result of C-45.

Source: CBC News April 30, 2018 21:49 UTC