The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition across the country, the operators of private but legal medical marijuana grow-ops have drawn the ire of their neighbours. The Globe's Dakshana Bascaramurty writes shop-owning neighbours complain the pervasive smoke has negatively affected their business and property values. However, a Federal Court in British Columbia is hearing a case that could shut down all private growers. The federal government replaced this method of growing with large commercial operations in 2013 and 2014, but a court injunction has allowed the small-scale producers to continue. The growers, who have licences from Health Canada to produce marijuana for their own medical consumption, have argued that the pot they produce is much cheaper than what they would pay commercially. A ruling in the case is not due until the end of the year. Until then, neighbours to private grow-ops are seeking other ways to deal with these federally regulated facilities. Last week Mississauga City Council passed a bylaw that makes it the first municipality in Canada to give city officers powers to police private growers to some extent, a model that other GTA municipalities are considering replicating.