I have begun to believe my mind is full of tiny little topics that act like pimples.

No one can predict the order they start to fester in, or when they’ll get ripe and burst.

Thursday 29 November 2012

Why I Advocate for Dr. Rob Kamermans



Another Change in Direction

S’mee  Again:

If you’ve followed this blog for any length of time you’re no stranger to a change in its direction and here we go again. It boils down to a matter of priorities.

To all my new Facebook friends, I want and need your help.

I started this Blog last Christmas with the intention of somehow keeping the Personal and Designated Grower Classes retained in the new MMAR they were revising. That went down the tubes in July when they decided eliminate all growth except contracts to supply medical needs.

Then I ran into the Municipal obstinacy and By-laws current in Surrey and across Canada: a great big wall of resistance to all growth requiring a whole deal of work and smarts to overcome. That is still one primary objective and its completion is probably years away: educate Councils to create an exception for small scale personal growth, there’s lots of time. There are three other things now taking priority here and all concern violations of the law relating to Medical Marijuana:

  1. The creation and implementation of a conspiracy by the Pharmaceutical Industry.
  2. The participation of the Canadian government in violating Secrecy and Medical Confidentiality, and
  3. The selection of a victim, and his persecution to create a deterrent to Doctors.

All are morally reprehensible and now I have a soap box. Here we go.

Just after I began this blog, I ran across an article in the Bancroft.ca news that on Jan 26 of this year a pseudo-Nazi raid took place in Coe Hill (wherever the hell that is), and the bully arrested a small town Doctor for signing too may Applications for Medical Marijuana. To add insult to injury they confiscated a rumoured 4000 Medical Files of all Applicants who had applied for and obtained authorization or were getting it. All their Personal Private information has been examined, recorded, and by this time probably distributed nationwide by a bunch of insensitive Cops with no sense of decency left after basic training: a salacious collection of Peeping Toms. Not on my watch or my file.

I’ve been digging into the whole mess for nine months now and I’ve managed to dig up a lot of information about what happened to Dr. Rob Kamermans, about him and who he is. He sets a standard that puts every other doctor in Canada to shame. After all this digging and speculation about his guilt I find Dr. Kamermans committed a cardinal sin: He honoured his Hippocratic Oath “First, do no harm”. He recognized and dealt with the harm caused by his Canadian colleagues. The majority of Canadian Doctors failed to recognize and address the desperate needs of thousands of Medical Marijuana applicants. They were, and still are, refusing to sign their applications.  He signed one renewal for an indiscreet patient whose own physician would not. Loose lips sink ships.

Word spread like wildfire and a trickle became a deluge and he signed around 4000+ in the short time between late 2010 and his arrest 15 months later He filled a void and saved 4000 patients who were suffering. FOUR THOUSAND goddamned patients came to him because they could not find another Doctor among the 67,000+ in the country in 2010 and he signed their application and got them help. Now he is being punished for that!

I want to get some appreciation and payback for him from both the people he helped
And
From every other reader of this post who has tried, or is still trying, to find a doctor.

Why all of us you just tried?

Because he was there to help!
If you had only known and could get to him
He would have!

 In the space of one year +, Dr. Kamermans output was almost a match of the output of 4800+ applications that resulted from 10 years of combined effort by more than 50,000 of his fellow Physicians.  1 divided by 50000= .00002= .002% of the Physician population was exceeding the output of the total Canadian Medical Association in helping Medical Marijuana.
I owe him and that is why I am doing this.
It took two years and an attack of Myasthenia Gravis to find a specialist and then kiss ass and beg my GP for renewal. Enough said.

I don’t want anyone to do much, not yet. Just follow me: stay tuned and aware of what I am doing via the blog. If you agree there’s an injustice to fix, spread the word as wide as you can to your friends who are tokers, point them to them the blog and at some point before he goes to trial I’ll ask you to send an e-mail, make a phone call or some other simple thing to draw attention to the injustice. Just let the people doing this know they are not very popular at the next election.

Think it over people, I need help, and you have it to give. I won’t beg because if you’re a Canadian Citizen it’s simply a matter of Principle. One simple question

Is This Right or is This Wrong?

What’s your answer?

Go figure! Until next time
Blaine Barrett

Monday 26 November 2012

A Rotten Conspiracy: How They Set up Dr. Rob Kamermans


Physician to Felon in One Fell Swoop

The Theory

Big Pharma decided to stop Marijuana Legalization.
Kamermans is simply ``Collateral Damage``

You may not agree
but
You will have to admit there’s a Baad smell here.


It involves all the Power players:

It all began in The Corporate offices of the Worlds Pharmaceutical Companies - one of the largest assemblages of power in history: A cooperating conglomerate of International Corporations who wield more money than half the Governments in UN. That is the reality of the foremost opponent of the legalization of Marijuana. They wouldn’t even be interested if it was just an effective Addictive Recreational Drug and was only a competitor to alcohol and Tobacco. Unfortunately drug sales will plummet with legalization because Pot is cheap!

Lobbyists are contacted and the objectives outlined- these are highly paid slime balls who will work for any body willing to pay big bucks for bullshit and bribes. They’ve got some of the best liars in the world and their business is to cultivate MP’s and high level bureaucrats: attempt to establish a “You scratch my ass and I’ll kiss yours” relationship. It’s designed to create the exchange of Favours: money and influence; then the hints start.

The Government: Every Member of Parliament who is subjected to their deceptive approach, sooner or later realizes that there is one great big in hook in their friendship. If he doesn’t play the game: Any large contribution to his re-election campaign is simply chicken change to the big boys. They could switch it from his campaign to that of his opponent at the snap of somebody’s fingers. All he has to do apply a little pressure on his boss.

The Prime Minister’s Office suddenly gets a whole raft of complaints from his caucus of Harpocrits complaining there is problem with this marijuana legalization thing. Somehow it has to be ended and we have to control grow ops and the unknown costs and possible medical consequences. The Member is now playing the game. He is fully aware that there is another level of Lobbyist who deals with international relations. These guys are like Secretaries of State for big Pharma. They flit around the globe and lobby the Big Boys: the Presidents, the Prime Ministers, the Dictators (no matter their record while in power) and the top levels advisors are all targets for a little friendly get together and chit chat.

Every MP who plays the game knows the PM Stewey (short for Stupid) Barker is already clued in and he’s interested but, before he commits he’s already told his advisor to marshal his troops and prime the pump: subtly blackmail the caucus into support. No problem, money talks. That being accomplished, he decides to please his benefactors and retain their support by simply stalling legalization until after the next election, Stu now calls in the appropriate members of his cabinet to help him pull off and conceal what turns out to be a massive illegal  intrusion into the personal privacy of a couple of thousand medical patients.

Stewey first called in Fiona Advocaat: Minister of Health, for advice. The boys at the helm of this obstruction of Legalization had indicated that the Medical Marijuana aspect of this problem merited particular attention, so Stewie just gave her a cloud of bullshit as justification and asked if there was some way to sabotage the Program and dodge responsibility for its failure.

Fiona is delighted. She has no reason to object to its loss: The Marihuana Medical Access Program has been a pain in her ass ever since she got the damned thing. She already had her answer ready. “Create a deterrent that will stop all doctors from approving Applications”!

Finding a doctor to sign their Application for Medical Marijuana had already become the biggest obstacle facing any applicant. Doctors faced vague Regulations, legal uncertainty, a possible risk of liability and the perceived disapproval of the Canadian Medical Association. The large majority of physicians were already unwilling to jeopardize their future by signing. All that had to be done was set an example of one of the physicians who was willing to take the risk. All we need is somebody to crucify: But who and how to do it? She got to work.

Selecting a victim was easy. All they did was go to the Top Secret data bank, Ranked the physicians in order of number of applications signed.

Then they just about crapped.

“Jesus Christ, Look how many he wrote!”

Not many doctors signed more than a half dozen applications but this guy signed hundreds. Find out who he is and how we can get at him. Get in touch with the local cops in this Coe Hill, never heard of it, and see what they know about this Doctor. Is he vulnerable?

Fiona told Stewey: Let me do some work, I’ve got a perfect manager in mind, my Deputy Minister Slenda Grates. She’s got hooks into the whole Medical Community and she slings spin with the best of them. She can sell this to the CMA.

Stewey now calls in his best connivers and conspirators for advice:

  1. Rab Snickerson: Minister of Justice for his skill in controlling legal shit and
  2. Sick Nose: Minister of Public Safety for his expertise Privacy and Lies 

Stewie tells them he needs to destroy a doctor who advocates Medical Marijuana and has signed hundreds of applications but there’s a problem: he hasn’t done anything wrong. We’d love to look in all those files, the names, locations, every municipality in Canada wants grow-op location and we could throw them all a bone but all those files are Medical Files and Confidential. How can we get into them?

Nickerson immediately replied, “if we don’t say what we did there’s no problem. Simple invasion of privacy; Sick knows all about that. Even if we’re caught and sued we can stall until hell freezes over or simply do the Sick Nose thing about privacy, plead guilty and stupid, apologise, return the files, pay off the patients and it’s over. In the meantime it’s all digitalized and we can make as many copies of all the personal crap as we want. I don’t see much of a problem if we all keep our mouths shut like G20. It will be over and behind us in no time.

Minister of Public Safety Sick Nose interrupted: “The Cops are no problem. They love overtime, bully boy games and they keep their mouth shut. All we have to do is say OK, boys, here we go again. We would like you RCMP and the OPP to work together and pull a repeat of G8/20 tactics and ensure complete silence about it. We’ve got a big problem if this legalization goes through and so do you: Job Security and Staff cuts!
There’s a Doctor out in the bush north of Belleville who is a major concern because of the number of applications he’s signed for Medical Marijuana and he’s got to go.

For the time being we want you to just lay the groundwork. Set him up. Have your professional snoops dig up enough dirt to support any criminal charge related to trafficking or any other drug related charge. The evidence doesn’t have to be that good just lots of it: allegations from tokers, dealers, growers, photo’s, receipts, or plain bullshit. Follow him for a couple of months and build up a fat file. When it’s big enough we’ll take it to some lazy ass judge who will just look at the size of the file, not what it contains, and sign a warrant. That will get you a legal search warrant for his medical records. Take a SWAT Team for combined drug squads and arrest this Doctor. Storm his office, arrest him, take his files and then refuse to say another goddamn word to anybody except badmouth him. We’ll tell you when.

We’ll take care of all the stuff we want for evidence and you guy can have unlimited access to his files for as long as you want. You can record the identities of every Medical Marijuana patient he OK’d, names, addresses, where they were going to grow their crops and details of their illnesses, all open to nose around and distort and snicker over.

Sick Nose didn’t bother to tell them they are going to commit a crime. It’s a legal warrant for the Doctors’ Records but not for the contents. These are separate private files each of which requires a warrant and just cause. No big deal. Oops, It’s just an honest mistake, we did it, we apologize, end of problem. So how do we keep the lid on Mr. Press Secretary?

Press Secretary:  I don’t think that will be too much problem, I checked him out before I came and he’s got a record of wandering all over the place  and he’s a do gooder but he never stays long and he’s a little weird. We are extremely fortunate in having him living out in the boondocks. If he was in a major city like Toronto or Vancouver he’d be well known and you’d have a couple of thousand stoners screaming and near riots. Coe Hill is at the end of nowhere and news coverage is limited to one small area with no population to speak of: a narrow strip of nothing north of Belleville to just North of Bancroft. There’s only one local paper that nobody reads and we can easily seal it off from the national news scene.
A few hints all the major Media News networks, Paper or air, that their access to all Barker Government news would all be second hand and that a huge part their medical related advertising could vanish will suffice to keep them in line.

We don’t think the old guy will pose much of a problem; he’s over retirement age he’s just made a pisspot full of money with all those applications. He’ll just sit it out until he gets in front of a judge and talks his way out of it, and that can be remanded ad infinitum. Then he gets off and we get shit. Big deal! I’ve got broad shoulders and that could buy us a couple of years.

Prime Minister Stewey Barker said: Only one problem remains: Medical Confidentiality and that is being taken care of. The Medical Communities Milk Cow is getting sick. All of the money connected to research related to pharmaceutical company’s benevolent auspices as well as all the gratuities and thank you’s handed out to physicians at large by Sales Reps was in peril. There was a hand on the tap handle. The CMA can’t oppose the damage to their membership and they’ll swing into line. It’s just a question of whether they’ll just agree to ignore the problem and if the reward is enough help support us by condemning this Criminal Behaviour.

Prime Minister Barker smiled and said “I think it’s a done deal. Get it moving. I’ll let you know when it’s time”.

January 26, 2012 somebody pushed the start button and the SWAT team stormed Dr. Kamermans Office.

They made a serious mistake.
They don’t know the man they picked to victimize.
 I Do!
&
I’m going to tell you about the man they are sacrificing.

Soon!

Blaine Barrett

Monday 19 November 2012

A Vicious Conspiracy in Harpoland




Conspiracy, Corruption and Crucifixion

There’s a conspiracy going on at the highest levels of the Government in Canada and it all has to do with the continuing Prohibition of Marijuana.

I’m not shitting you.

It involves all the Power players:
  1. Corporate offices,
  2. Lobbyists,
  3. the Government,
  4. the PMO,
  5. the Ministries of Health, Justice and Public safety,
  6. the Police,
  7. the Medical Community, and
  8.  Media.

All of these have been manipulated and coordinated to accomplish one purpose.

Silence a whistle blower!

What’s he whistling about.

Iatrogenic?? Medicine and Drug Profits

Wiktionary: Adjective

Iatrogenic: (medicine, of a disease etc.) Induced by the words or actions of the physician.
That is what it is all about

Cover up + Profit = No Pot.

I can’t tell you who the target is or how they are doing it

Yet!

Following is a summary of the problem.

The WHY if you will.

It was written by the target victim and outlines the source of the problem
I knew something smelled bad

The Relief of Pain

Risk and Cost Analysis

When it comes to the treatment of pain, there are several options, all with some degree of cost and risk, depending on the individual’s coverage and choice.



Treatment Methodology
Annual Cost to Individual
Annual Cost to
Government = Taxpayer
Anti-inflammatories:
The main cost of NSBID use is Dr. visits. NSBID’s are over the counter meds thus not considered dangerous but deaths do occur from renal failure and GI Bleed.


$150.00


$150.00
Narcotics:
Percocet and Oxycontin and Morphine, most of the cost here is for the Government as they are covered by drug plans.


0

$3000.00
Dr. Visits and Pharmacy costs
Using narcotics is also very risky behaviour as there are annually thousands of deaths attributed to overdoses of narcotics. In addition there are hundreds of thousands of addicted whose daily activities consists of looking for, acquiring or acting illegally to get their daily “fix”. I would say these individuals are not making a worthwhile contribution to society- in other words they are not taxpayers yet still have their Dr. visits and medications paid for. The Government solution is
Methadone:
More addictive than opiates. Must be closely monitored and cost of methadone itself are high. My opinion it makes them more addicted and thus more difficult to eventually detoxify.


0

$4000.00+ for Dr. Visits and Methadone
Medical Marijuana:
Patients who use medical marijuana prescribed and supplied by the Government. There is no drug plan. Costly but affordable to some
$3000-$1200 / year

$150 for Dr. visits

For those who cannot afford it there is the option to grow their own
$300-$500/ yr.
$100-B1 or B2
$75 for Dr. visits

So not only is medical marijuana a big saving for the Government and taxpayer; there are no deaths attributed to the use of medical marijuana.

We have the safest, most effective, cheapest remedy for the patient and the Government = taxpayer = individual.
But No! Government wants to continue to keep this safe cheap alternative medicine illegal, thereby allowing the black market to grow.

Thereby costing the Government = taxpayer = individual
  • Millions of dollars for police to arrest and detain smokers and growers and patients who use medical marijuana
  • Millions of dollars to build new gaols to house and keep offenders.
  • Millions of dollars in loss of revenue from non-functioning members of society that are addicted to opiates, and the cost to rehabilitate these individuals
  • Thousands of lives lost because of narcotic overdoses
  • We are now talking billions of dollars that could be better spent in other areas i.e. education

Quotation is from: The Biology of Belief – Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles, 2005 by Bruce Lipton, PhD. Pg. 77

“Adverse drug effects like those contributing to the HRT controversy are a primary reason why a leading cause of death is iatrogenic illness, i.e. illness resulting from the medical treatment. According to conservative estimates published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, iatrogenic oiliness is the third leading cause of death in this country. More than 120,000 people die from adverse effects of prescribed medications each year. (Starfield 2000) However last year a new study, based on the results of a ten year survey of government statistics came up with even more dismal figures, (Null et al 2003). That study concludes that iatrogenic illness is the leading cause of death in the Unites States and that adverse reactions to prescription drugs are responsible for more than 300,000 deaths a year.”

These are dismaying statistics, especially for a healing profession that has arrogantly dismissed three thousand years of effective Eastern medicine as unscientific, even though if is based on a deeper understanding of the universe. For thousands of years, long before Western scientists discovered the laws of Quantum Physics, Asians have honoured energy as the principal factor contributing to health and well being. In Eastern medicine, the body is defined by an elaborate array of energy pathways called meridians. In Chinese physiologic charts of the human body, the energy networks resemble electronic wiring diagrams. Using aids like acupuncture needles, Chinese physicians test their patient’s energy circuits in exactly the same manner that electrical engineers “troubleshoot” a printed circuit board, searching for electrical “pathologies”.

Physicians: The Pharmaceutical Patsies

But as admiring as I am of the ancient wisdom of Eastern medicine I do not want to bash Western doctors who prescribe massive amounts of drug that contribute to the health professions lethality. Medical doctors are caught between an intellectual rock and a corporate hard place: they are pawns in the huge medical industrial complex. Their healing abilities are hobbled by an archaic medical education founded on a Newtonian, matter-only universe. Unfortunately, that philosophy went out of vogue seventy-five years ago, when physicists officially adopted quantum mechanics and recognized that the universe is actually made out of energy.

In their post graduate years, these same doctors receive their continuing education about pharmaceutical products from drug reps, the errand boys of the corporate healthcare industry. Essentially, these non-professionals, whose primary goal is to sell product, provide doctors with “information” about the efficacy of new drugs. Drug companies freely offer this “education” so they can persuade doctors to “push” their products. It is evident that the massive quantities of drugs prescribes in the country violate the Hippocratic Oath taken by all doctors to “First do no harm.” We have become programmed by the pharmaceutical corporations to become a nation of drug-popping junkies with tragic results. We need to step back and to incorporate the discoveries of quantum mechanics into biomedicine so that we can create a new, safer system of medicine that is attuned to the laws of nature.

Buying the Pharm

I believe that the major reason why energy research has been all but ignored comes down to dollars and cents, The trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry puts its research into the search for magic bullets if the form of chemicals because pills mean money. If healing energy could be made into tablet form, drug manufacturers would get interested quickly.

Instead they identify deviations in physiology and behaviour that vary from some hypothetical norm as unique disorders or dysfunctions, and then they educate the public about the dangers of these menacing disorders. Of course the over-simplified symptomology used in defining the dysfunctions prevalent in drug compliant advertisements has viewers convinced they are afflicted by that particular malady. “Do you worry? Worry is a primary symptom of a “medical condition” called anxiety disorder. Stop your worry. Tell your doctor you want Addictazac, the new passion-pink drug.”

Meanwhile the media essentially avoids the issuer of deaths by medicine by directing our attention to the dangers of illicit drugs. They admonish us that using drugs to escape life’s problems is not the way to resolve one’s issue. Funny… I was just going to use that.

“Wait”, you say. “Times have changed”. We are bow more educated to the dangers of drugs and more open to alternative therapies. It is true that because half of Americans visit complementary health care practitioners, traditional doctors can no longer put their heads in the sand and hope other approaches go away. A few insurance companies have started to pay for services they once deemed quackery, and major teaching hospitals allow a limited number of such practitioners inside.

But even today very little scientific rigor has been marshalled to assess the effectiveness of complementary medicine. The National Institutes of Health did create an “alternative medicine” branch thanks to pressure from the public but, in my opinion, that is only a token gesture to quell activists and consumers who spend lots of money on alternative health care. There are no serious research funds available for studying energy medicine. The rub is that without supportive research, energy based healing modalities are officially labelled “unscientific.”
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Blaine Barrett

Friday 16 November 2012

The Netherlands- Common Sense on Immigration.

Go Dutch - but why wait until 2013?

The Netherlands, where six per cent of the population is now Muslim, is scrapping multiculturalism.

The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the
Netherlands .

A new integration bill, which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society model and plans to shift priority to the values of the Dutch people.

In the new integration system, the values of the Dutch society play a central role.

With this change, the government steps away from the model of a multicultural society.

The letter continues: "A more obligatory integration is justified because the government also demands that from its own citizens.

It is necessary because otherwise the society gradually grows apart and eventually no one feels at home anymore in the
Netherlands .
The new integration policy will place more demands on immigrants. For example, immigrants will be required to learn the Dutch language, and the government will take a tougher approach to immigrants who ignore Dutch values or disobey Dutch law.

The government will also stop offering special subsidies for Muslim immigrants because, according to Donner;
"It is not the government's job to integrate immigrants." (How bloody true).

The government will introduce new legislation that outlaws forced marriages and will also impose tougher measures against Muslim immigrants who lower their chances of employment by the way they dress.

More specifically, the government will impose a ban on face-covering, Islamic burqas as of
January 1, 2013.

Holland has done that whole liberal thing, and realised - maybe too late - that creating a nation of tribes will kill the nation itself.

The future of
Australia , the UK and Canada may well be read here.

READERS NOTE: Muslim immigrants leave their countries of birth because of civil and political unrest "CREATED BY THE VERY NATURE OF THEIR CULTURE."

Countries like
Holland, Canada, the UK and Australia have an established way of life that actually works, so why embrace the unworkable? If Muslims do not wish to accept another culture, the answer is simple;
                                         
"STAY WHERE YOU ARE!!"

This gives a whole new meaning to the term; 'Dutch Courage' - Unfortunately Australian,
UK, and Canadian politicians don't have the ... guts to do the same. There's a whole lot of truth here!!!!

ELECTION 2013 IS COMING
A Nation of Sheep, Breeds a Government of Wolves!
I'M 100% for PASSING THIS ON!!!
Let's Take a Stand!!!

Borders: Closed!

Language: English or French.

Culture: The Constitution, is the Bill of Rights!

Drug Free: Mandatory Drug Screening before Welfare!

NO freebies to: Non-Citizens!  We the people are coming!!!

Only 86% will send this on. Should be 100%.

What will you do?

If you do not wish to send this on, there is a delete option on your tool bar!

Blaine Barrett

Tuesday 13 November 2012

So: Who’s The Enemy-What’s Their Problem- What’s My Game Plan?




So who is the Enemy?


S’mee again!

For purposes of this post and the narrowed down matter of legal personal growth, wherever you live in Canada the final enemy and barrier to Medical Marijuana is your City Hall.

There are any numbers of opponents on a National level but whatever results from that squabble is inevitably going to result in a price increase. Any result requiring Government National Regulation, even complete legalization, will of necessity involve Contracted Regulated Production, Human Greed, Profit Expectations, and a Taxable Product! I don’t think the Harperites in charge are going to voluntarily subsidize Medical Marijuana patients to help them get their dope: they already are slamming stupid mandatory sentences for six plants. Where does that leave any pot smoker, medical, recreational or otherwise who is struggling to or can’t afford it at current pricing? S.O.L.

City Hall doesn’t realize that when that future point comes they will have a problem with illegal residential grow ops that will increase exponentially. To start off, the majority of Medical Marijuana Possession Licensees also have Class C Personal Growth Licenses. If not already growing their own in their residence or wherever, they are fully capable of doing so. They are not going to voluntarily scrap their own supply or they decide to grow their own in their residence the cheapest possible way. Not good.

For purposes of my little crusade I have selected Surrey as the City Council most opposed to all growth in residential areas with the most insurmountable set of Bylaws. They are setting the precedent for imitators all over this country who are as misinformed about the hazards of legal marijuana growth as they are.

So what is Their Problem?

Historical Bias and Prejudice based on false information about

  1. Reality: 10 years brainwashed by Len Garis and his ilk,
  2. The distorted hazards presented by Grow-operations,
  3. the size of a personal grow ops
  4. Not up to date on technology of production, and
  5. completely unaware of the problems coming up.


So what is My Game Plan?

I want to take however long it takes to gather information, prepare a presentation of fact, present it to Surrey City Council and broadcast it to every City Council in Canada. They all need a wake up call to the fact that they are living an illusion. I want to give them all
a re-education as to just what the problem is, but as a first priority the fact that there is a solution possible and all it takes is common sense.

The first task here is to tell them who the Medical Marijuana Licensees are as individuals who also comprise a group at serious disadvantage, with absolutely no power, voice or influence over the decisions that are being dictated to us with regard to a medication we can’t afford from legal sources. They need to be reminded that I don’t give a damn if they only have one local resident they need to empathize with that resident because he needs an exemption from the Bylaw and they have the power to grant it.

I heard someplace that over 1/3 of the Licensees of the MMAP are Senior Citizens on fixed incomes. Retirement funds blown on sickness costs, no extended medical with maximum CPP and Canada Pensions that combined are below the poverty line. Sucks

I want them to imagine the problem of a 30 year old dad and husband who is too ill to work. His EI sickness benefits ran out and now he has the responsibility for his family with only his CPP Disability and Welfare to pay the bills. None of the council will ever have to experience the discomfort of standing in the rain or snow waiting to get into the food bank.

I want them to understand that the Bylaws they have are completely inappropriate for the size of grow-op we are talking about. All of Fire Chief Garis objections to residential growth are based on large installations beyond any concept of personal. It is designed to deter anyone creating structural alterations or damage to the premises in which they are created. Grow ops have shrunk in size and we are now teeny. We now have self contained environments in zippered fabric bags the size of a horizontal or vertical freezer, energy efficient CFL and LED lighting, and every thing is controlled by circuit boards and Chips. It is a self contained environment whose only contact with the premises is the 12 square feet of floor it sits on and it’s connection to a 15 amp household wall plug.

I want to sell them the idea that creating an exception to the Bylaw to allow the operation of an Approved personal size Grow-op is a smart move.
Hell, we can:
  1. have a competition for the best design my friend potheads can come up with, or
  2. challenge the City use their knowledge of the objectionable features to come up with a set of rules and regulations that make sense.

There will be no hazards involved if done right.

I want to create an impact and I think I know how to pull it off: Presentation Technology and Facts that can’t be ignored. I almost got to Council about six months ago and I know the route and the furfural procedure to get there. I think they have a responsibility and I’m going to remind them of the fact but I need all the help I can get to gather the information, collate and understand it, and package it into a 15 minute presentation that will make them actually think.

Anyhow that’s my game plan and I have no idea how long it will take but here goes. I had the great experience and pleasure of working for a family of New Jersey Jewish Light Bulb peddlers in Florida and they taught me that if you decide to do something, you “Do whatever it takes to get the job done!”

We shall see. In closing I would like to ask for any comments or criticisms you readers would care to make.
  1. Have I got my head screwed on straight? or
Do you think it stinks?
Let me Know!!!

Blaine Barrett

Thursday 8 November 2012

The Need for Marijuana v. City Hall- WWIII on the Horizon


WWIII on the Horizon

A Speculative Assessment of Things to Come

I was pretty damned gloomy when I closed my warning Post about City Hall and their opposition to all growth of marijuana but I was simply stating reality. These deluded local politicians want all future marijuana growth to be contracted under license, controlled and taxable, with the product available to the populace for a “Recreational Fee”.

What are they up to?
What do they stand to gain?
They’re all opposed.
Are they vulnerable?

To validate my suspicion of collusion I managed to find and compare about 14 municipal Controlled Substance By-laws that effectively cover the complete Lower mainland from Saanich to Hope. They all, in the end, effectively ban all marijuana growth. Some differ as to how but naturally the most adversarial, hostile Council outlook and most punitive and impossible set of by-laws is that of Surrey the leader of the opposition as framed by Fire Chief Idiot Len Garis.

They are quite proud of their punitive approach and take every opportunity available to trumpet their progress in opposing all growth including that of Medical Marijuana.


These people who are against all marijuana growth in residential areas are being completely blind to the consequences of their opposition. I believe they are now laying the groundwork for an epidemic sized outburst of illegal growth right where they don’t want it: backyards, garages, basements, bedrooms, closets: Personal sized Grow-ops in the residences of anybody who wants or needs a steady supply of marijuana.

Somehow I don’t think that all those thousands, yes thousands of Class “C” Licensees who have been growing their own at a reasonable cost are going to voluntarily submit to a price level of a hell of a lot more they can afford. The City can’t seem to realize that the gang guys are doing just fine at the current price levels and aren’t going to disappear if you legalize it. There’s lots of business and the inevitable increase in the going legal price that includes regulatory compliance, the reporting requirement, Profit for the Contractor and if anyone thinks there is a tax windfall coming, I think the competitive gap is too big and if you can’t grow it you just take a short walk to the Street. It’s not hard to find in any City, As far as Canada goes, just HST is enough to fuel competition and inflate criminal margins.

The opponents aren’t too happy with the program now. The Status Quo got us here, Ref:

 Proposed Improvements to Health Canada's Marihuana Medical Access Program

Some of the key concerns raised include:
  1. the potential for diversion of marihuana produced for medical purposes to the illicit market;
  2. the risk of home invasion due to the presence of large quantities of dried marihuana or marihuana plants;
  3. public safety risks, including electrical and fire hazards, stemming from the cultivation of marihuana in homes;
  4. public health risks due to the presence of excess mould and poor air quality associated with the cultivation of marihuana plants in homes;
  5. the complexity and length of the application process for individuals who wish to obtain an authorization to possess and/or a licence to produce marihuana;
  6. the impact of increasing participation in the Program on the efficiency and timeliness of the application and review process;
  7. the fact that Health Canada only supplies one strain of dried marihuana; and,
  8. the need for more current medical information pertaining to the risks and benefits associated with the use of marihuana for medical purposes, as a means of supporting discussions between physicians and their patients as to whether such treatment is appropriate.
All those 8 reasons are bullshit and fabrications about now. They bear no resemblance and have no relevance to what I can foresee in 2-4 years if things just keep going along and no effort is made to alter the course of Political and Bureaucratic stupidity.

So once again here we are up, against the wall but I told you before think I can see a sore spot. It’s just a little lesion, a pimple, right in their anal area: a very vulnerable target.

Next post I’m going to tell you how I think I can infect it, fester it into a boil that will burst a hole through all those collected arse holes: if and when we choose to pick it.

I have already selected who the target of all my creative, covert, subversive, nasty, crafty talents will be.
I may even develop some new ones. LOL
Until then
Blaine Barrett