The "criminals" you refer to are, point of fact, Mom and Pop producers, not gangsters. See Susan C. Boyd & Connie I. Carter's Killer Weed: Grow-ops, Media, and Justice (UofT Press, 2014) for a refutation of law enforcement claims that MJ producers are gangsters; see my own research (A Cellar Tropic: Elision & the MJ Worker, UBC 2014); or see Dept. of Justice 2011 report, gleaned from over 500 Crown Prosecutor & RCMP case history files, showing that ops associated with org. crime were barely 6%, and ops associated with firearms were 6%, barely higher than the national average of licensed gun owners at 5.5%.

The real "criminals" are Canada's Licensed Producers, who are permitted by Health Canada to spray the following: actinovate, BIOPROTEC CAF & PLUS, Botanigard 22 WP & ES, MilStop Foliar Fungicide, Rootshield(R) WP Biological Fungicide, Vegol Crop Oil, Bio-Ceres G WP, Influence LC, prestop, Sirocco, Agrotek Ascend Vaporized Sulphur, Neudosan Commercial, and others. See CLN page