"grow house"

[Grant Barrett]

On Mar 11, 2007, at 16:53, Charles Doyle wrote:

> I recently heard on a local news broadcast from Atlanta about a
> narcotics raid in a residential neighborhood of a nearby town.
> Residents of the subdivision were astonished to discover that a
> GROW HOUSE was located on their street. In the ediface so
> designated, quantities of high-grade marijuana were being cultivated.
>
> UrbanDictionary.com does not record "grow house"--though Google
> exemplifies it amply.

A similar term is "grow operation" or "grow-op."

http://www.dtww.org/index.php/citations/grow_op_1/

Grant Barrett
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