NPR had a story this afternoon about “grow houses” - regular homes in neighborhoods that are covertly used to grow marijuana indoors.  Their story focused on such operations in the Pacific Northwest, but it isn’t exactly a new phenomenon in the U.S.  These “grow houses” are a testament to the ingenuity that people have when it comes to making money.

Such stories often blame the lending industry for offering zero down and other such mortgages, often with minimal documentation, that the entrepreneurs frequently use to set up their operations.  But I don’t see the problem.  If someone with money wants to lend it to someone else on mutually agreeable terms then that should be allowed.  If the debtor chooses to use the funds to establish a criminal enterprise then that is not the lender’s fault and it should be the government’s responsibility to enforce their laws, not the lender’s.

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