LIAR! LIAR! PANTS ON FIRE!

Abbotsford Councillor Henry Braun is a Liar!

I’m Calling Him Out on It!

My E-mail to Abbotsford Council --Sept. 18, 2014

Dear Mayor Banman and Councillors:

While I would like to request that all Council members read this, it is specifically addressed to Councillor Henry Braun for what I believe is an outright lie regarding the safety hazards related to the growth of Medical Marijuana.

Councillor Braun:

This morning I read your statement as reported in the Cannabis Digest on Tuesday Sept 16, 2014 that the privacy policy of Health Canada in failing to disclose the location of Federally Licensed Medical Marijuana grow-ops is costing the City of Abbotsford and its residents “horrendous expense”.

You want all BC Municipalities to demand a change to over-rule the privacy right

You state as a matter of fact “the city has had multiple instances of homebuyers unknowingly purchasing former grow-op locations — leaving them with costly repair bills to fix tampered electrical wires and mould issues.

You sir are a LIAR!

You state two “Facts” that are either outright lies or a monstrous distortion of a minor isolated occasional problem.

I want to know what your city data base has on record to support your outrageous statements. I would like a reply from you and answers to a couple of very simple questions.

If you are telling the truth then you should be able to easily answer with a simple search of city records and come with the following clarifications:

1. What was the “horrendous” expense to the City in Fiscal 2013?
2. What is the “horrendous” expense” so far in 2014”
3. How many “Multiple instances” were reported in 2013?
4. How many “Multiple instances” were reported in 2014?

You state: “Somebody buys a house and they basically have to gut the inside of it. You’re talking $50,000”!

5. How many multiple instance had “tampered electrical wires”?
6. What was the average cost to repair?
7. How many multiple instance had “mould issues”?
8. What was the average cost to repair?

I will wait for your reply

To all you other Councillors:

As I see it Henry spoke for the Council and if he really did, you’re all as stupid and bigoted as him. Take a good look at Henry’s answers and make your own assessment of what is truth!

Best regards:

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Medical Marijuana Advocate and Ethical Critic

http://goan-smee.blogspot.ca/

An Open Letter To Campbell River Council

An Open Letter To Campbell River Council

Deny the RCMP Request for DARE Funding

Dear Mayor Jakeway and all Members of Council:

Re: D.A.R.E. program needs funds

http://www.campbellrivermirror.com/news/238519421.html

Please deny this request. The purpose of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program as run by the RCMP has little or nothing to do with educating youth . That is simply the justification for an extended period of physical interactive contact by police officers with the pre-teen age children of Campbell River. It is intentionally timed as they emerge from elementary school and prepare to enter middle school. There they will become exposed to and contaminated by the anti-cop reality of their next ten years in the teenage world. This is a pre-emptive presentation of a more positive RCMP image before the favorable one cultivated in childhood gets exposed. This is how the intimate contact time with students is designed and works.

D.A.R.E. provides opportunities to establish positive relationships between police, children, parents, teachers and other community members. This is a friendly time between the class and usually a pair of very nice personable young cops in uniform. These individuals have been specifically selected and trained in the cultivation of personal relationships. Their task is creating a bond of trust with each student to not only the instructors but also to the uniform they wear. This is successful in a subliminal establishment and belief that if a police officer asks you a question you should answer because he can be trusted. That is false: the worst instruction a child can be given.

So: Who Is This Guy?

That friendly young Instructor is a Cop. Never doubt it. He’s a complete stranger from someplace else who knew nothing about your community until the day of his arrival, and the community knows nothing about him. He’s not so young: he’s probably a university graduate; he’s completed his basic training, served his street apprenticeship. He’s been with the force about five years and has intensive training in Investigation, Interrogation and has mastered his observation and detailed reporting skills. The majority of the time in contact with students is a time totally devoted to questions and answers about all kinds of topics while he takes notes and leads the questioning.

The instructor not only listens but observes and records minute details that can disclose not only an individual’s history but also his personality and his social relationships in the class. Interrogation training notes body language: facial tics and nervous movements in reaction to pressure. Innocent questions can identify members who are his closest friends, his confidants, and all this is on file.

So What’s The Problem?

If as the instructor requested, a student “Bill” at some point in the future say 6 years later after graduation, Bill gets a call and consents to answer some questions about a “friend” in an interview. All of this information will have been reviewed by the Inquisitor on the other side of the table beforehand. Bill knows that the questions concern his good friend “Jack” but not what they are about. His friend Jack has been caught on camera in the commission of some crime in town XYZ 200 miles away the day before. He was identified and a check on his DARE details revealed a link to Bill as a close buddy

The Interview Process

In the course of the interview Bill is asked Jack’s whereabouts and honestly answers he didn’t know where he was. He volunteers Jack was going to XYZ to collect some money he was owed: he also admits he knew that for a week because he had been pressuring Jack for payment of a debt. To the interrogator that moves Bill into a Person of Interest category because he has knowledge connected in some way to their investigation. The crime may have been planned in advance considering the time frame. Considering the motive was money for Bill that also raises the possibility of a conspiracy and Bill now gets advanced into the Suspect category. Woe is him because he is now a target and the inteerogator presumes him guilty. All future relations with the Cops are on the basis of their attempting to bully him into incriminating himself into an admission of his presumed guilt.

How Can This Happen?

The sad part of this story is that Bill had never been informed of his rights as a citizen of Canada. He has the right to refuse to answer any questions on the grounds he might incriminate himself. but despite his completion of his formal Canadian schooling he, as every other student in this country, has never been exposed to any course dealing with their Civil and Charter Rights as citizens and how to protect those rights when they are threatened. Supporting DARE is a contribution to a program that increases the vulnerability of your youth to the misuse of the Law by some authority and a violation of their rights without the knowledge to protest and protect themselves.

If you still can’t understand, or will not accept advice from a nobody, I suggest you pay attention to the following damnations of the program by authorities far more knowledgeable than either you or I will ever be.

40+ years ago in 1972 the LeDain Commission blasted the criminalization of marijuana by DARE and recommended the removal of cops from the classroom. The US National Academy of Sciences, the US Surgeon General and the US General Accounting Office have all condemned the DARE program as a failure!

Since 1998, 16 years ago, the US Department of Education prohibited schools from using federal funds on DARE.

12 years ago the Nolan Reoprt of the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs concluded that "prevention strategies in schools should not be led by police services or delivered by police officers" and that “the RCMP should reconsider its choice of the DARE program that many evaluation studies have shown to be ineffective;”

I can’t understand why Council is considering a program that has demonstrated itself to be nothing but an RCMP Propaganda and Intelligence Exercise.

Council should be much more interested in creating and funding a program to advise these same teens in their rights as citizens in the legally bewildering world they are entering in their transition to adulthood.

In Closing:

I suggest the council defer to the conclusions reached by my cited experts and refuse more funding for DARE.

I also suggest that you recognize the shortfall in our education system and its failure to teach students properly with regard to their rights. You can render our youth far more service by pressuring the Province, at some point before their graduation, to include a compulsory course in the value and purpose of their Civil and Charter Rights.

While you’re at it, add an additional request for another compulsory course in Financial Management. At the current time a High School graduate has had neither training nor experience with money management beyond spending what he can pry out of Mom and Dad. They have no idea of how to assess and determine a budget to survive paycheck to paycheck much less create an investment strategy to prepare for retirement 40 years in the future.

Our children need training in both these areas in order to successfully survive in the complex Legal and Financial jungle they are entering with adult independence. The world seems heading for a global disaster and almost inevitable shortages of almost everything that hasn’t already been polluted and rendered useless. Inflation and old age are inevitable and their rights and money are basic tools for successful survival in the world ahead: and the next generations need to know how to use both to their advantage.

On that note I leave you. Do as you will.

I would be remiss if I did not advise you that this letter in its entirety is being published in my blog:

Medical Marijuana with TheSmeeGoanGuy

At

http://goan-smee.blogspot.ca/

Regards

BlaineBarrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? Me? Me?

Hey there! My MP!

Whatcha Gonna Do For Me? Me? Me?

As it now stands, as of April next year the Harper Government is going to change the laws and outlaw personal growth of cannabis. Mandatory criminal charges and sentencing for anyone caught growing over 5 plants wil back up this new twist on prohibition. That is cruel and unusual punishment being inflicted on anyone needing medication but unable to afford it under the new pricing that will result from their new supply and distribution. The Harpocrits claim that this is going to result in a price level around the $8 level but given the framework of the deal as I see it, they believe they can implement a cartel of producers coordinated by Ottawa, LOL . They want to maintain a monopoly of supply with pricing the least of the concerns. 

I smell GREED!

Big Pharma? Big Business? Big Finance? Tobacco?

Big Crooks the Lot!

Who’s going to grow it?

I guess it will be the successful bidders who can come up with a small fortune to invest in a seat on the cartel and can wait till hell freezes over to realize a profit.

Why a small fortune? The initial set-up investment, operating costs, the size of the market, outside services i.e. QC, technical services for inspections and testing on a continual basis to ensure regulatory compliance,  +++ 

I don’t know how big the market for medicinal pot is right now and neither does anyone else: supposedly 20,000 buyers but growing to half a million in short order. Somebody’s going to be damned busy trying to just figure out how far and how fast any successful bidder can get to a break even point.

Health Canada has made the system so damned complex with regulatory overkill that the casualty rate in the first year is going to be disastrous. As of April 1, 2014 nobody will have any customers but the will have to have stock on hand. When do you start to grow? That’s easy, One grow cycle before April 1! How much? What kind of cannabis? How many strains? What’s that going to cost? How long will it stay on the shelf before we can get our money back? Where do I get customers? What do I charge or do we have a cartel price? I‘ve watched businesses start and fail for 50+ years and there’s disaster on the horizon come the big day. It’s going to be a bureaucratic fuck-up of massive proportions: that’s a guarantee.

So What’s the Point?

My point is that regardless of the mess they create and have on hand when the starting gate opens next April, if I grow my own medication,

I will immediately become a felon, subject to Criminal Code charges under the Controlled Substances Act and a mandatory sentence in one of Harpo’s new accommodations (you remember,for all those cells to handle the unreported crimes Stockwell Day predicted before he fled Cabinet). Harpo couldn’t let his buddy Stockwell be wrong: he had to do something to get his cellblocks loaded so he just created some new crimes to be reported.

I’m simply asking all Members of Parliament, what they are prepared to do to protect you, their constituent and supporter, from Harpo’s cruel and unusual punishment for growing my own medication.

I don’t want to spend my retirement years in prison!

I need Cannabis and can’t afford enough now

Whatcha Gonna Do For  Me? Me? Me?

Is This Official NDP Policy?

Is This Official NDP Policy?

If it is,

I have a problem!

The other day while cruising through my morning news I ran across another friend’s submission to Facebook. He is probably more pissed off than I am with the lack of integrity in Ottawa. He’s had a closer acquaintance than I with this Member of Parliament. He was surprised to find out she had two faces. I thought it was common knowledge they all do!

Following are:

1.    his Facebook entry comment followed by

2.    a precis of the article that pissed him off

3.    a link to it and following that

4.    A conclusion and commentary by me in my usual precise and picky way.

To begin, I didn’t bother to ask MJ for permission to reprint this but what the hell it’s just another way to share his profound hurt and disappointment. Read on!

MJ Vape

So, in spite of my years of trying to educate Jean Crowder and the NDP that we need to grow at home for our medical cannabis, she sides with the neighbours in that she says these small "operations" will be gone soon. She knows they are called production sites and she had an opportunity to set the record straight. I thought she was more understanding of all sides. If there had been proper regulations or even suggestions about odour control from Health Canada, that would have eliminated these problems. She seems to be siding with the government here. My hope with getting any support from the federal NDP is quickly vanishing.

From  The Cowichan Valley Citizen

Neighbours sick of legal Shawnigan grow operation

http://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/neighbours-sick-of-legal-shawnigan-grow-operation-1.543582

A PRECIS:
Nanaimo-Cowichan MP Jean Crowder said many regional districts and municipalities don't have bylaws in place to regulate where these operations can set up shop but the CVRD could act if other bylaws are being broken… "The licensing is one piece of it but if they are contravening bylaws...just because you've got a licenced grow op doesn't mean that you can flout whatever other regulations are in place," she said.
But Crowder says it won't be much longer until small medical marijuana growing operations like the one in question are done with for good. A more commercial process will replace what exists, all but eliminating the one-off growers and replacing them with massive industrial operations.
Until then, if citizens have concerns, they need to contact Health Canada and if they don't get anywhere, Crowder can reach out on their behalf, she said.

My Opine

Another one sided opinionated article by another newspaper reporter as superficial as Jason Miller of the Belleville Intelligencer:

a sensational expose based on little or no investigation and follow up.

 What’s the other side of the story?

Remember questions about the defender, does he have a defense?

Who is this guy? Does he have a name? What are you doing here? What’s the problem causing the smell? Can you stop it? How many Plants? ( That’s usually a good indication – Huge to stink that bad).How many licenses? Why do you grow and do this despite opposition from the neighbors? Where do you think it will end?

To Sarah Simpson : Did you actually go to the scene of this crime and sniff downwind on a hot day? Did you get stoned or dizzy? Do you really think there is enough smell to justify a complaint or is it just the neighbors fear that the Criminal Element has moved into the neighborhood and the children are in danger. In short are they believers in the bullshit the Government hands out as truth and acting stupidly.

I guess that’s about enough criticism of the reporting, now to the public spouting of a wannabe famous politician Ms. Crowder

Where the hell does she as a Federal politician get the right to advise municipalities to cover their asses with restrictive bylaws to prevent any personal growth of Medical Marijuana? That is a straight ignorance and denial of the rights of her own constituents who are legally entitled to grow as a cost avoidance measure that she conveniently ignores.

The second point is laughable in her assertion that the new commercialization will eliminate all the problems right away. She completely ignores the reality that the creation of a supply industry for a nation this large in less than a decade is stupidity. At this point:

1.    No licenses have been issued, noproduction sources

2.    No Production facilities have as yet been constructed.

3.    Not one has been inspected for regulatory compliance

4.    No target crops are recommended from the genetic pool and

5.    No seeds have been mass planted or cloning activity begun.

6.    No verified sources of product are available to contact and apply to

7.    The price is a totally dependant on the greed component.

It seems logical to me to conclude that there is no way in the time span remaining to accomplish all the activity required to prepare a national distribution system. The creation of supply train of unknown products (Hybrids), of sufficient quantity and quality. ready to go to supply a market with very a demanding clientel at an unknown price increase that could double by next April is impossible.   

The Cons have a majority and the passage is guaranteed. An NDP member on Opposition is not supposed to be advocating enemy crime. They don’t need your help Jean, back off and do what you ewer elected to do. Help your constituents survive the assholes in power and lodge the fact into your mind that not all your constituents are homeowners with nasal problems that need coddling.

If you have a grower, it’s logical you have patients who need the medication and they are constituents too. What the fuck are you doing for them! Their pain and sick symptoms are far more important than the unfounded fears that fools like you propagate for political gain.

Regarding your last statement:

“You’re living in Wonderland, Alice!”

You stated you could address concerns if your constituent’s complaints were not getting results from Health Canada. Try flexing your imaginary muscle in front of a mirror because your self image needs a severe deflation! They have the power to tell the Supreme Court to piss off and you think they will listen to you, a back bench nobody from an Opposition party. LMAO

I wonder how many of your constituents realized they were voting for a Harpocrit in NDP costume. I hope they wake up for the next election and ram this little bit of two faced flatulence back at you. I truly hope you’ll enjoy the rotten smell of defeat.

Should any of you readers be ticked off to the degree that you would like to make a snarkey comment, it won’t cost you a penny. Ms. Crowder was kind enough to provide a toll free phone number and even her e-mail address:

Phone: 1-866-609-9998
E-mail: jean@jeancrowder.ca

Feel free to call: She obviously needs all the feedback she can get!

An Appeal for Help to All Facebook Friends

I advocate for Dr. Rob Kamermans.

I believe him innocent but have no proof of it.

All media coverage has been prosecutorial

I need evidence of his innocence

It’s out there among you

Help me find it

Please!

S’mee again:

With the exception of this Blog there is a complete lack of knowledge or information about what Dr. Kamermans did to get persecuted by the Harpocrits. Everything is kept very low profile and what little national media exposure permitted is limited to a repetitious spewing of allegations, inferred moral deficiency and criminal motivations, capped off with regurgitation of the stupid biased criminal charges against him to complete the character assassination.

But:

1.    At no time has any actual evidence, or statement of verifiable fact, been provided by the prosecution.

2.    At no time has any condemnatory nor exculpatory evidence been discovered by any media, national or local. Investigative Journalists, if there are any left, either don’t know how to do the job or just don’t give a damn about justice via the truth.

3.    If they can’t find it why do I think I can? Because I know where to look.

There are only two people who know the truth about the validity of any commercial transaction: the buyer and the seller. We know the allegations against the Doctor but the only other people in this country who know what Dr. Kamermans actually did, and how he conducted these business affairs, are the 4000+ applicants he got licenses for.

Somewhere, out there, among all you friends, from coast to coast, these people are lining under the threat of disclosure and prosecution because their identities, addresses and all the personal private details in their pontificated Medical Records were illegally disclosed to a bunch of stupid ethically deficient morons who specialize in violating the privacy of others. The only privacy Canadian cops value is their own and their fellow officers when accused of crimes against the public. No body talks i.e. the G8/G20 assault and battery criminals who hid their badges.

I want to contact as many of Dr. Kamermans customers as I can to find out the truth of what happened. Is it a good truth or a bad one? Only they can answer.

Following is the list of questions that need their answers. I simply want every person who reads this to share it in order to contact them and inform them they are needed. This is being sent to every Facebook friend because you all are part of and well known within the Marijuana Tokers Team. I took a good look at what sharing can do and this can work with very little effort for any of you. I am asking all my readers and about 230 Facebook friends to help. If each of you simply shares this on your timeline after reading it my goal will largely be accomplished. Heavens, Several of you have friends and followers in the thousands! The cumulative weekly total visitors to those and 200 more fellow sites have to be astronomical!

The Questionnaire:

To all of the 4000+ (?) MMAR Licensees who obtained their License with the assistance of Dr. Rob Kamermans, you are now potentially vulnerable to the same illegal search, seizure, and persecution. I firmly believe that the confidential information contained in your Medical file regarding your identity, location, dosage, and most importantly if you are a Personal or Designated Grower has been extracted for follow-up. It is also my belief that this has been done as a sop to the Municipal Bylaw freaks and that the locations of all these grow ops will be, or possibly have already been, disseminated nationwide to every Municipal Bylaw enforcement officer and local cop shop.

The only way to find out what really happened and where it is going is to find out the information only you know. What is the truth of what happened between you and the Doctor from finding his identity to the receipt of the signed form and payment?

The following 18 questions are designed to get essential details only and no personal information beyond

1.    Your License to Possess Number- to verify the validity of the information and source if required, and

2.    The medical condition you needed Cannabis to relieve.

	Question
1	License to Possess Number:
2	Medical Condition:
3	Where were you residing when you found out about Dr. Kamermans? City or Riding name only.
4	How did you hear of him?
5	Why were you interested in him? No Doctors available locally? Please Expand on any problem finding treatment. How many turndowns?
6	How did you contact him & when? Method, month, year
7	What were you advised to do. Be as explicit as possible, Where to go, when to be there, docs to bring and funds to pay.
8	How long did you have to wait?
9	Where was the interview conducted? Hotel? Rented office? Meeting room?
10	Were you the sole attendee or were there others waiting, How many?
11	What happened between arrival, reception and your interview?
12	How was the interview conducted, desk? Table? Seating positions, etc
13	Describe the interview as best you can to assess both his procedure and the interview objective.
14	In your judgement was the interview: 1.    a professional medical assessment of your need with his advice or 2.    a commercial payment transaction with little medical assessment?
15	In your considered opinion was there any indication of criminal wrongdoing in the transaction? Any false information, evasion or deception noted?
16	How much did the Doctor charge? Was there any flexibility or negotiation involved?
17	Do you consider this a reasonable charge for the service rendered?
18	Were you happy with the result when you left?
	That is the end of the questions regarding your application process. Most importantly, in recent history has anything occurred to make you suspect that the personal information in your file may have been used to identify you as a Licensee and target for the enforcers? A surprise fire or building inspection: or an unjustified traffic stop with non traffic offence related questioning based on a “What do I smell?” excuse?  If you have please expand as much as possible. Theory is acceptable but facts to support it are needed.
	If you are going to reply and help please do so promptly, his trial date is less than six months away and that is not much time to collect and assess an overall picture from hopefully even only a 25% return. Please reply. Don’t assume others will do the job instead and your answers are not needed: they’re assuming you’ll answer as well. This really is worth your bother.
	Thank you for the time and effort spent. Your answer, combined with those your fellows will help create and then throw light on the dark spot in Harpo’s underwear.
	Please return your answer to me at TheSmeeGoanGuy@Gmail.com ASAP

Thanks to everyone who helps

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Like Minded Loathing but Don’t Judge Harpo Yet!

He’s not finished!

His crimes are still in commission

S’mee again:

Today I got this letter from a like minded person and I agreed with him.

My reply to him follows:

Hi Blaine, I was looking around on your site. Very little on the Mernaugh case. Summit in Columbia in the spring was landmark event. Harper's stance on the war. We need to know our goal. The MMAR is a system set to fail. We need to focus. What we ask for will be fucked by torie bureaucrats. Go for gold. The only thing makes sense is legalization. The war on drugs is way more detrimental to society than marijuana will ever be. Harpo's stance on MJ is stone cold. No democracy. No constitution. Just no! He was in Columbia in the spring while the Mernaugh case was on. A vote on prohibition is a vote to fund organized crime. His stance on grow ops is unreasonable and his facts unsubstantiated. How many fires caused by legal grow ops?  Anyone should be legal to grow 6 plants. Regulation will help keep our children safe and take the demand off illegal grow ops. 'A kid does dope ruins his life or gets caught selling where the market is and his life is destroyed by the war. What is better? Harper doesn't make his stance for money. He is trying to drive the price up so people cannot afford weed. He wants his army. These laws allow him access in anybody house at any time. Billions spent on policing, What will he do with the cops, the dogs and the air traffic?

 The stance that won the Mernagh case was ignorance and safety. This stance is filled by false truths. He sat at the summit where world leaders said it was a myth that marijuana leads to harder drugs, and said in an interview that the problem is that marijuana leads to harder drugs. ???

Like everyone else. I live in fear. The war has taken the life I knew. Victimless crime? The victims are society. Oppression.

Stay strong, be organized. EDUCATE.

Victims of the war

Ron 

Hi back Ron;

I can’t disagree with anything you just said. You’re right about the Mernagh stuff because everybody else is tuned into it and they don’t need reminding. As a matter of fact I’ve decided to simply avoid all the current kerfuffle about the MMAR. They are dead and buried and I don’t care how many current appeals get won they are a waste of time. If Harpo manages to create the intentional bureaucratic snarl up I see coming, starting as soon as the new Regs are official, there will be a whole new decade of lawyer bullshit and screwing patients ahead.

Just as food for thought what if Harper knows exactly what he’s doing? What if Stevie really wants pot legalized so he can pay for his jets and his other screw-ups? Be realistic Ron: that son of a bitch could teach Machiavelli a lesson in two-faced betrayal to get an objective. Legalization would suit him perfectly, he already has half the tokers in the country pushing for it and I think he would love to pull an about face and beg forgiveness and the sucker Canadian public will bend over backwards to re-elect a leader who will admit a mistake in judgement and give in to the will of the people. You know those people: the same goddamn idiots who voted for him the last time.

If you think I’m wrong, consider that from his standpoint. Harpo can’t allow the legalization of pot without total control of the legal supply. What better way to get control than to screw up Medical Marijuana by establishing a rigidly controlled system of production and distribution facilities that are doomed to failure because of the resultant cost of the product. At that point you have to save the mistake of pricing medicine beyond patient reach so you have to come up with some subsidy money to help them. Well, well, well: what do we have here? Why a whole bunch of underutilized Medical Marijuana Commercial Growers with facilities already to expand and burst into the sale of Recreational Drugs at an exorbitant price of a system of ridiculously combined costs: Production, overhead, greed and profit compounded by taxes up the ying yang.

You may think this fantasy or fiction but that is what all the Harpo’s ideas have seemed before he rammed them up our collective arses. He conveniently forgets his lies and BS, I hope Canadians have better memories but he’s already diagnosed Alzheimer’s as the next epidemic to be used as a weapon. Baby Boomers beware, the weasels in the chicken coop!

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy