LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — In Coldwater Creek, a middle-class housing development outside Atlanta, the neighbors mind their own business and respect each other’s privacy-ideal conditions, it turns out, for growing marijuana in the suburbs. Police this month raided an utterly ordinary-looking red-brick house on the block and broke up a pot-growing operation with 680 plants arrayed under bright lights. ‘You’d never know from the outside. I guess that’s the idea,’ said Doug Augis, who lives with his pregnant wife and a toddler in Coldwater Creek. ‘That doesn’t give you a really good feeling.’ Around the country, investigators are increasingly seeing suburban homes in middle-class and well-to-do neighborhoods turned into indoor marijuana farms. Typically investigators find an empty home, save a mattress, a couple of chairs, some snacks in the fridge and an elaborate setup of soil-free growing trays. Grow houses have been a problem for years in California and Canada, but investigators are now seeing scores of them in the South and New England. In the past six weeks alone, more than 70 have been uncovered in northern Georgia-nearly 10 times last year’s total for the entire state. Only one was busted in 2005. Indoor pot […]