2014 - What’s Ahead?

2014 - What’s Ahead?

Let me look!

Not a lot of good!

What have we got for openers Jan 1, 2014?

A Slap in the Face from Health Canada for Starters

We’ve got a Government determined to cash in on Marijuana profits at the expense of the patients who need it for Medical relief. The Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations have little or no relevancy or help for Doctors or Patients. The rules are laid down; both become casualties to greed and are dumped. 90% of the pages and regulations of the MMPR are concerned with the operation of a bloated, over regulated micro-managed commercial enterprise doomed to failure.

Why do I come to this conclusion?: Because I found this recent ultimatum from Health Canada to the College od Physicians and Surgeons of  Ontario on Christmas Eve posted as Comment #49 in the CPSO Consultation Discussions.

The Comment did not identify the source only the text.

• Dec 10, 2013

College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario

Policy Department

80 College Street

Toronto, Ontario

M5G2E2

Feedback re: Medical Marjjuana Policy

Introduction:

Health Canada has determined that the Marihuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR) Program will be completed by March 31, 2014 and in its place will remain the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) program. The MMPR program is quite different from the MMAR in a number of ways.

Health Canada:

- Health Canada will no longer require that specialized forms be completed by physicians on behalf of patients.

- Health Canada will no longer be supplying medical marijuana for sale to patients.

-Health Canada will now be licensing private producers (called Licensed Producers, or LPs) who meet strict standards to grow and sell medical marijuana directly to patients who obtain a prescription-like "medical document" from their physician.

Patients:

- Patients are no longer separated into 2 categories based on their medical diagnoses.

- Patients will no longer be required to have a specialized, Health Canada form completed. Instead, the patient will be required to obtain a "medical document," similar to a prescription from a physician.

- Patients will no longer be able to grow cannabis for their own use.

- Patients will no longer be able to delegate a third party to grow on their behalf.

- Patients will no longer be able to purchase medical marijuana from Health Canada.

-The only route to accessing medical marijuana is for patients to send their "medical document" directly to a Licensed Producer of their choice and order medical marijuana to be delivered to their home, or to the office of their signing physician, if the physician consents to receive this.

1 Physicians:

- Physicians no longer need to separate patients into two categories based on their medical diagnoses.

- Physicians are required to complete an "original document" (essentially a prescription) in order to allow patients to access medical marijuana. A specialized form from Health Canada is no longer necessary.

- The "original document" will be required to include the following information: Patient Name, Date, DOB, number of grams per day, duration of prescription (up to 12 months), physician's name, office address, and license number.

Feedback: Following are the orders to Doctors by Health Canada. I took the liberty to insert my comments and posted it as a reply to Comment #49. I hope it survives moderation.

For crying out loud I almost feel sympathy for you Doctors. The arrogant a**holes at Health Canada bark and you’re supposed to comply and treat your patients like trash.

I beg to differ with Ottawa as follows:

1) Physicians should not feel required to prescribe medical marijuana to patients. Why not? If a patient qualifies and is asking for your help, how can you refuse? You are causing them harm in violation of your Oath not to by your refusal! Are you not going to refund the fee for the visit?I thought not!

2) Physicians prescribing medical marijuana should have some basic knowledge on the medical use of marijuana. Not unless the patient is new to Cannabis and as ignorant as most physicians. If a patient is using pot, find out how, then ask, listen and start recording what you observe in accordance with order #11, #12 and #13 below

3) Participation in CME should be recommended or even mandatory for those who choose to prescribe medical marijuana (e.g. attending

conferences, familiarization with the Health Canada "Information for Health Care Professionals" document as well as other research studies). The CME Continuing Medical Education program at theU of C Faculty of Medicine is just another bastion of bias. I don’t see them blasting the net to make doctors aware of any number of acceptable studies favorable to marijuana. One such prime example is the Harvard Study Cited in the Journal of Schizophrenia Research 

 http://psychcentral.com/news/2013/12/10/harvard-marijuana-doesnt-cause-schizophrenia/63148.html#.Urt4lvumbSg

The "Information for Health Care Professionals" document is a load of misinformation and distortion it’s better to avoid or you risk nausea.

4) Inform patients that marijuana is not an approved drug.

Why? Because some egocentric bastard back in 1923 decided to build a law Empire based on Classifying it as a Class 1 drug. Bull, that’s simply perpetuating a 70 year old myth..

5) Discuss that there is still a lack of clinical evidence for its use.

Bull again! There is any number of recent current testimonial cures on the Web but nobody from the profession is bothering to check them out. Many are supported by a Physician statement certifying his patient’s declaration that he has been cured of Cancer often with diagnostic evidence that cannot be denied. Now that is something actually constructive The U of C Faculty of Medicine could do!

6) Discuss the known risks associated with taking marijuana, including the fact that certain risks may still be unknown.

There are No Known Risks and the unknown ones are unknown. What’s to discuss?

7) Prior to prescribing medical marijuana, ensure that a proper diagnosis of a medical condition is made.

In combination with # 9 approach you patients with paranoia. They are all potential criminal and drug addicts and Health Canada wants to infect you with that perverted belief!

8) Consider screening for respiratory illness and heart disease prior to initiating treatment with medical marijuana.

Why? What justifies this if the patient has no pre-existing condition that warrants it? Nothing

9) Consider screening for diversion or use of other drugs of abuse

Simply more paranoia!

1 0) Discuss alternative treatment options with patients.

If there are any options be sure to discuss all the side effects and surgery to patients in graphic detail: Don’t sugar coat what they are going to go through if they follow your advice

11) Start slow and ensure proper follow up as clinically indicated.

Yes!

12) Develop ongoing relationship with patient, rather than writing prolonged prescription with no follow up.

Yes!

13) Physicians should be encouraged to conduct research studies and collect data in order to further our understanding of marijuana as medicine.

Yes!

14) A physician should only agree to accept delivery of medical marijuana for a patient, if the physician's office is equipped with a safe and secure storage area to store the marijuana in an organized fashion.

Just put it with your Heroin and Oxycontin supply on the second shelf of the fridge!

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance to you in helping

with this policy.

Ditto

TheSmeeGoanGuy

That will do for now but I will have more comment and questions regarding the future role of all the players after the New Year. Doctors, Lawyers,Producers and Media: all are problems that will have to be dealt with. Fortunately, Christmas is over and this won’t ruin it for you

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

A Solution to Enbridge

MY ADVICE TO THE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY

MAKE THEM PAY!

The Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel Report has possibly solved half of the problem with the Enbridge pipeline. If the 209 conditions can be met by the Consortium then everything that can be done to protect the environment and the habitat has been done. It now boils down to one question:

What the hell is Stevie going to do?

There’s bunch of savages across the table!

They’re all wearing Warpaint!

The answer is obvious:

Buy them off!

How and with what?

OWNERSHIP!

I think that unlike us white honkeys, the Aboriginals of this country and particularly BC natives have a tradition of equality and sharing of their wealth that supports my proposal. They solved the 90% problem by having a big party! When any individual reached that prosperous level he threw a bgi party and gave it all back to his community so everyone shared equally in his success, a

Potlatch

For all you ignorant white guys:

A potlatch is a gift-giving festival and primary economic system practiced by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and United States. Wikipedia

If you consider tradition, where does that leave all of you natives if your leaders negotiate a success? To get an equal portion that success has to be divided.

What’s to divide?

Money and Control!

How do you get both?

You put a toll on the flow of product through it,

An advance payment, and

get a voice on the Board.

When the deal is signed there is a census, a deposit to a trust fund and a separate cheque is issued to every man woman and child in your band. That prevents corruption and is necessary to ensure that each of you decides where it goes and there are no diversions.  We’re talking some pretty big bucks and there are greedy devious weevils in all communities.

On the other hand maybe you can get the Enbridge bunch to throw a potlatch and you can all pick up your cheque, and an apology from their rep when you show up for the party.

That’s my advice. Do as you will but consider the option, It’s just common sense from

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

A Christmas to Remember

A Christmas to Remember

In the fall of 1982, my wife Patti and I left Cincinnati and headed for Florida. Over the summer I had rebuilt a 1950 Howard English Caravan Travel Trailer we bought for $350 and pulled out of a hillside. One day we climbed into our monster gas guzzling 1972 Cadillac Sedan de Ville, hooked up to the Blue Goose as we had named her and headed out into the wild blue yonder.

 We stopped overnight in Newport, Kentucky because of a blown tire on the Goose and then in the morning we stocked up. Hey! It’s Kentucky: Cheapest cigarettes and booze in the nation. We stuck 35 cartons of cigs and 30 six packs of beer under the bed and took off again and finally landed in St. Petersburg, Fla.  where we took up residence in the Holiday Trailer Park. We got lucky and landed a spot right next to the Community Hall with access to wash rooms and settled in for the winter.

Things got rough: no work!  The job I had been offered disappeared with a drop in the phosphate market. Florida is a right to work state (no unions) and competition is terrible for what is available given the number of snowbirds that hit every September. This creates a situation where before you can even be considered for a good permanent job by any employer you are required to have one year of residency, a Florida Drivers License and a phone number. Things were really desperate by the end of November but Patti got lucky and found us both a job at Orange Blossom Groves. It was hard manual work packing citrus fruit. Christmas presents to the North by the tourists but it saved our bacon. 21 days straight of 12-14 hour days, minimum wage but overtime no problem and the owners and management treated us well.

Shortly after we arrived, we had renewed an acquaintance with Tara, the daughter of John, our drunken neighbour from next door in Cincinnati. She was living in Clearwater with her Kentucky hillbilly boyfriend, Jim Bob, and they undertook the task of showing us the local amusements that could be afforded by poor white trash. There wasn't much, but there was salt-water fishing and no license was required. One night in late October we arranged to go fishing off the pier at Clearwater. This juts out a couple of hundred feet into the Inland Waterway off Clearwater beach and the water at most might be 15-20' deep. Patti and I both had fishing rods, and guided by Tara and Jim Bob's supposed expertise on what we should use for bait, we bought a bucket of shrimp and went down to the end of the pier with them one night just after dark at high tide. Tara, Patti and I baited up our hooks and waited for Jim Bob to appear with his gear.

He was a long time coming but eventually he showed up with a short fishing rod about 5' long and 1/2" in diameter with a huge reel on it loaded with what seemed to be about 80 or 100 pound test line. He proceeded to string on about a 6 foot stainless steel leader, a huge hook, and baited it with a half a chicken, and fired it out about 50' and sat down to wait for a nibble. Given the fishing expertise he professed to have this aroused my curiosity and I asked him " What the hell are you going to catch with that rig, Jim Bob?" and he calmly replied, "Well I'm fed up tryin' to ketch those little buggers so I'm goin' to catch me a shark!". Things went downhill from there.

We stayed at Holiday Campground until the end of December. We had planned on staying the whole winter but a combination of hillbilly temper and old family rivalry upset these plans and we got our asses tossed out of the park. The day before Christmas, we invited Tara and Jim Bob over to our place for a Christmas dinner. They arrived accompanied by Jim Bob's younger brother, Don, his girl friend, and an adequate supply of beer and smokin' dope. The day was a beautiful 85 degrees and we spent the whole afternoon getting progressively more and more stoned and in general having a real good time while the bird cooked.

After supper we sat outside in the gathering dust, full bellied and content, and watched the faithful old fogeys in the park slowly file into the Community Hall across the way for vespers on Christmas evening. Somehow Jim Bob and I got into a wrestling match on the front lawn to determine who was the better at the game. It took me a while to pin him and we made a fair bit of noise that aroused the further attention of the Peaceable Kingdom crew at their church service.

After I managed to subdue Jim Bob, we relaxed with a few more beer, until suddenly Jim Bob's brother insisted that he have a match to see who was the better man in the family. This turned out to be a fairly even match and it went on for some time. As it progressed it got more and more violent and noisy and near it's conclusion Don was shouting "Mom always did like you better than me!!" and the fight was on in earnest. Punches, kicks, and a whole lot of very loud profanity followed and once again drew the attention of the churchgoers across the street, and they sent Art, the geriatric campground watchdog over to investigate and restore quiet so they could continue their service.

Just as Jim Bob finally won the bout and stood over his brother in the encroaching darkness, Art, the ancient caretaker for the park, arrived on the scene. He noticed Jim Bob had dropped his wallet during the fight, picked it up, and approached Jim Bob from behind. As Jim Bob turned towards him, Art tapped him on the shoulder and thrust his wallet out in front of him directly into Jim Bob's face. On instinct Jim Bob parried the blow he thought was coming and retaliated by throwing a super right cross that caught Art right in the eye and sent him over backwards onto his ass. The shit hit the fan.

Art was helped away by a couple of his fellow churchgoers, and our company, deciding that discretion was the better part of valor, piled into their pickup truck and roared out of the park. Unfortunately Jim Bob let Tara drive, and before they got off the property, she managed to knock down a telephone pole that carried power for half of the park. By midnight, the action was all over. We had been visited by the park manager, hollered and chewed out, our tenancy voided, and we had been asked to leave. It surely was an evening to remember.

One of the most fun ever: shit disturbing the neighbours!

What a night!

An Invitation to the CPSO Consultation re Marijuana

They’ve Given Us an Opening

Sucker Punch the Bastards

For the first time there is a channel available that can permit all of our anger and resentment about Cannabis and the failure to recognize its benefits to be dumped into the heart of the Canadian Medical Community.

Get Off Your Ass and Bitch

Don’t Miss This Opportunity

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has opened its ears and is apparently prepared to listen to input not only from the Old Boys Club but also to the public. When it comes to a review of the College’s Policy re Cannabis it’s about time they actually considered the input of the patients they are targeting with their no signature, no cooperation strike.

The CPSO has issued a Consultation Request as part of a review of their policy on Medical Marijuana. I have checked out their Consultation request and it is a wonderful opportunity to make our voice heard. They have provided access for comment and contribution via several routes and I recommend a submission of a complaint to all of them.

They have requested our thoughts on the current policy

We can submit our comments to a discussion forum, send our comments via Email, complete a brief online survey concerning the current policy, or send our comments via regular mail

The Policy you are being asked to criticize can be summarized into 5 main points that I have listed following along with my first comments just sent to them. Read them all and then give the College your input on any or all. I know this is an opportunity to rant but don’t. Keep it civil and to the point and make them understand that they are failing in their oath to Do No Harm and we feel betrayed..

The Five Points of Policy

1.    Physicians are expected to use their best judgment in deciding whether to complete a medical declaration under the MMPR.

Dr. Louis Francescutti, the President of the Canadian Medical Association in his Initial address to the Association stressed that his primary concern was to correct the Image of the CMA. He was referring to the self-image physicians have of themselves: not to their image from a Patient’s point of view and that of the general public. By and large you are perceived as a pack of liars intentionally depriving patients of needed services for political gain. You are in violation of your Oath to do no harm and you are inflicting unnecessary pain and suffering. Take great care

2.    To date, there have not been adequate studies that prove that marijuana is effective in relieving symptoms associated with serious medical conditions.

This is a flat out lie. None has been listed in CMA approved venues but unless you’re blind you have to be aware of the growing mass of testimonial evidence that is flooding social media. The respectable scientific community without your participation or support has engaged in some serious research of late and every day sees a new properly conducted double blind statistically verified study that indicates great potential for the plant used in various ways besides smoking.

3.    The adverse effects of marijuana use include the harms associated with smoking. Pure Bullshit: everybody knows it.

The only adverse effect of smoked marijuana is a nasty cough when you get too greedy and bogart the joint. Ignore the smokers if you want and look at the medibles, tinctures, elixirs and Rick Simpson oil and start helping your patients. All of them are watching you to see where you guys stand: is there any flexibility to this blockade or ar you as rigid as the CMA with the pokers up their ass?

4.    Physicians are not obligated to complete a medical declaration under the MMAR. Physicians who choose to do so are advised to proceed with caution.

Proceed with caution because to begin signing applications is to violate the orders of the CMA and they are nasty bastards and recrimination is possible. They are acting like a bunch of political lobbyists on a wildcat union strike and the whole country is watching.

5.    Physicians can consider prescribing the oral pharmaceutical form of cannabinoids where possible to address the treatment needs of patients who have chronic conditions.

They can but they should not. Why not? Because they are big Pharma drugs that are more dangerous than smoking: The initial guesswork of an industry that will founder if cannabis actually does cure cancer. There are only two drugs to date and nobody has any idea what side effects can occur if they are used for treatment for a variety of maladies.

No accurate dosage relative to any ailment is known so you’re guessing on the dosage and the frequency; totally ignorant of any potential side effects. There is no index of data available on how to prescribe for various conditions so you’re guessing in the dark. What is so different about cannabis?

Think about it!

I just posted these 5 points and comments as Comment #34 as a Member of the Public to their Discussion Forum. It survived the moderators despite its negative view and criticism so I think we should all give them input.
Just take a peek at the storm they have already kicked up and there is lots more to come Go to

http://policyconsult.cpso.on.ca/?page_id=2593

Enjoy
Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

This is Your Future: Old Age and Loneliness

A Wake-Up Call for the Boomers Kids

Time is Short

I was going to address this to what is called the Boomer generation only to find they are all old farts like me. The Boomers were born in the period 1946 to 1964 and now range in age from 49-67. They’re all too old to benefit from any advice I give because they are now learning the same difficult lessons I have had to absorb. First and foremost, Freedom 55 was a ridiculous idea and its failure revealed our whole generation’s lack of knowledge about how to manage money and plan for the future. If you’ve reached 60 without banking or investing that you can count on for a comfortable retirement, think again, there’s a rough road ahead

If today, you find yourself at retirement and you haven’t got that nest egg in a much protected state, then count on a shortage of yolk down the road. My son was born in 1964 so I guess I’m aiming this at all the Boomers little brats, not the parents. All of you readers who have reached the age of 50 are looking at a future where you will need to take advantage of all the Canadian Social Benefits that the Cons are determined to chop away at knee level. I’m not surprised at where we are in this country. for the last thirty years I have been watching an amoral control freak crawl his way up the political guts of our society to a leadership role. Yes, I’m talking about Harpo the Hypocrite.

A couple of readers have asked me:

Why do I hate Stephen Harper? What do I have against him? Well, here’s the axe I’ve been grinding and have been for 3 decades. I would give a million dollars to have the privilege of being first in line to piss on his grave.

In 1989 we were living in Red Deer, Alberta in the heart of redneck Religious Fundamentalist country with its ignorant belief and prejudices. My son was a homosexual. He was born one, he grew into a talented artist: I knew who he was and accepted the fact. I think it was September when Lee had to go to a dentist and was turned away because he was contagious, he had HIV.

Our leader Mr. Harper was not really into politics as yet but was gathering his base with a thunder and lighting campaign based on religious bigotry and intolerance and somehow he got my attention and I started listening to him. It was not fun hearing my son was being punished by God for his evil ways and perverted conduct but the son-of a bitch would not shut up. It took my son 7 years of hell to die of AIDS when it fried his brain, and we had to watch the process, listening to the vitriol of an asshole on the radio vilifying our son. According to his belief structure my son was a sinner being punished for his perversion and choice of homosexuality and Harpo condemned d him to Hell. I can’t forgive that.

In 1997 my employer went bankrupt and we went through a very tough time when we needed help from the system and actually got it. EI saved our ass. Late that year Mr. Harper, the Great Pretender, gave a speech to a collection of right wing American fundamentalist business tycoons at an event in Montreal. In it he describes his appreciation of the Canadian social network and Canadians inattention, greed, and acceptance of a public dole. That alone displays some of the evil thinking he again needed in designing the MMPR. I quote:

“First, facts about Canada. Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it. Canadians make no connection between the fact that they are a Northern European welfare state and the fact that we have very low economic growth, a standard of living substantially lower than yours, a massive brain drain of young professionals to your country, and double the unemployment rate of the United States.

In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance.”

The reality is boys and girls you children are going to experience what remains of our beloved compassionate system of giving a shit about your neighbor. Harpo has a majority and with his bigoted understanding of how to fix shit I will not hazard a guess as to what ruins will remain after his tenancy is ended.

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

Euthanasia Rears Its Head

We’re all on the downhill slope to Death

I don’t have a problem with it

I would like to die. I cost too much

And the world is going to change even faster

Attention all you pending Old Farts

Everybody In the 55+ Club

It is time for a serious change of topic: time for some old fart advice to any and all of you readers, who are at or near retirement age. You have no idea what you are facing if you plan on living to a ripe old age. I’m sorry to inform you that you are facing a rotten future full of shit that you have not considered. You are going to go through the process of ageing in a time of increasing cost and reduced resources and it is going to be no fun for anyone. I hope I am over exaggerating the future hazards but preparation can minimize or deflect some. Consider this a tutorial in survival: a lesson in reality

As a commingling problem, now Doctors are having a problem with euthanasia, and Alzheimer’s is just coming into bloom and here come the new herd of Boomers.

Let’s start this by you just retired, or will, doesn’t matter when and you figure on lasting until you’re lets say 75 and, if you’re lucky, maybe even a few years longer. Let’s consider the problem in five years chunks.

In the first five years you’ve got the problem of adjusting to a fixed income lifestyle, the more bucks the better and this is not easy. Suddenly you’re a nobody and you don’t count. Nobody wants to hear your opinion! You’re useless, nobody wants you, nobody needs you and nobody is going to be left to give a a shit when you die! If you’ve been paying attention, you have come to realize that friends and relations have been dying around you and your social life is drying up. Friends can’t come over because they’re busy with their own health and survival problems. If you are a typical 60 year old with ten family members left for support, they are probably living in ten separate cities and no real support at all.

If you’re single you’re lucky, you don’t have to care for anyone and watching a loved one wither and die is no fun! You can’t stop it. It simply takes over your life and the chains of love make you watch her suffer! There is no option

OK we made it to seventy and now we start in with the physical deterioration crap. You get weak and you get tired. You’re joints start to ache and you lose your wind. Maybe you’re stuck in a wheelchair and then there’s the old fogy’s home when you can’t take care of yourself. Have you got any idea how much it costs for an assisted living facility today. It’s beyond my means: what’s that cost fifteen years down the road? Doesn’t matter. Money doesn’t control where you go, your physical condition does and you’re a helpless passenger.

The Bible says a life span is three score and ten, and that is all anyone should want: Particularly now that Alzheimer’s is coming home to roost.

The years past seventy five are the most to be feared. They all involve losing control of your life and progressing towards a life in a bed. What is worse: a life of anonymity? Sooner or later it happens, somebody dies and you are alone. At that point you vanish. If you died there is not one solitary soul left who will give a shit much less shed a tear. You will not be missed and no will remember anything you’ve done. You might as well have never been.

You are doomed to a life dependent on strangers to feed you and clean you, perform the necessities of daily life and keep you alive as long as possible. The final insult to you is the possibility of a stroke or some other result like a coma or Alzheimer’s that prevents you communicating with the external world and you are trapped inside your own head. Then one day it happens: you die in your sleep and you either wake up to the Heavenly Choir or you don’t wake up. End of problem. No one should be afraid of dying: the peril to be feared is how you get there.

Euthanasia

That is what I want to leave you readers with today.

Something to think about.

Docs Offside on Physician Assisted Suicide

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/docs-offside-on-physician-assisted-suicide-1.2448089

Look at the ageing pole I painted.

Look at yourself

Ask yourself “where you want to get on the misery scale?”

Then ask yourself what if the option of euthanasia was available?

A simple request: and a surprise pill in my evening meds some day this week. Thanks.

Not so terrible is it.

More to follow

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

CANNABIS CURES CANCER

CANNABIS CURES CANCER

Our Doctors Deny It Does

They Are Liars!

Nearly all Social Media friends are aware that over the past several year there have been numerous announcement of cannabis involved in cures for cancer. The first I recall is Tommy Chung, then more recently Jack Kungel and now Kelly Kush is tumor free.

Cannabis Cures Cancer is a statement of fact and truth that Doctors now universally deny. They present themselves as trustworthy advisors who charge for the truth. They are liars

They are also worthy of condemnation and contempt for the usurious charges they levy for their services. Unfortunately they have a monopoly on medical service and Canadians cannot do without them.

The overall service they now provide has two components:

1.    The physical component of injury and the need for repair:  an essential area that requires the totality of their technical mastery and skill at scientific methodology and statistical analysis.

2.    Disease is the other component and here they deserve no trust when it comes to the curative powers of anything. Cannabis has marvelous curative powers but the CMA is ordering its members not to sign applications for its use citing unknown risk and a requirement they fulfill a Gateway obligation to approve its use. That is bullshit and good reason not to trust them.

Under the MMAR and now the MMPR there is no requirement for a doctor to approve or authorize marijuana use as a medication. Note there is no prescription involved, no dosage specified nor is their permission or approval requested. They are simply making a declaration that according to their judgment the applicants physical symptoms meet the criteria for legal medical possession. Nothing more; nothing less. The Gateway bull is just that. Lies!

Get the truth. Amoral idiots and cowards

The CMA’s Origin

In the Beginning:

1.    The time of the first assembly of Ethicists is unknown.

2.    The number of Ethicists attending is unknown.

3.    Its Purpose was the formation of the Canadian Medical Association

It was an ethically pure universe: cognitively aware of a parallel physical universe that had problems that could be relieved by an application of ethical purity.

The first order of business at the assembly was the election of a Board of ethicists to provide Governance and direction to the assembly at large. At the end of due deliberation they issued the first directive that while ethical purity was the objective, an integral part of  part of that purity was respect for the belief structure of others.

Unfortunately one of the beliefs of the physical universe was that motivation was the result of good work being rewarded and in the physical world the best reward was MONEY!!

The Seeds of Corruption are Sown

The First Directive of the Board with its reference to financial reward sowed the seeds of corruption deep into the core of the Board of Governors. When time came for the Second Directive there was a large enough ego component in the Board membership who believed personal financial gain was their right and they voted to incorporate.

The change in ownership to that of their corporate identity ensured internal containment of profits. Limiting investment to shares of interrelated companies providing every service and aspect of the current Canadian Medical System.

The Gordian knot

A simple example of the interlocking power of the System is the operational control of any major Hospital in the country.

A hospital is run on the basis of contracts for all the services required to make it operate. Everything:

Services- Accounting, Housekeeping, Nursing, maintenance

Supplies-  Food, Furniture, Bedding, Beds, Surgical tools, Laboratory Hardware.

Every contract is the result of a purchase order to the rigidly controlled supply chain of Physician owned corporations who can provide everything

Dr. John- President- Atlantic Bedding Manufacturing.Inc.

Dr. Fred- President- Hospital Waste Removal Services.Inc.

Dr. James- President- Medical Grocery Services.Inc.

Dr. Tom- President- Medical Trades Alliances.Inc.

Dr. Dick- President- Hospital Food Prep Services.Inc.

Dr. Harry- President- Customer Care Services.Inc.

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WHERE ARE WE?

THE CITIZENS OF CANADA?

At this point in time the Canadian Medical System is the only source of Medical treatment for all 35 million Canadians from birth to death. That applies to all Canadian residents who feel the onset of an illness or pain and want to obtain relief. They must make an appointment with a Doctor who will relieve their symptoms by prescribing treatment with a barrage of pharmacological concoctions that extend relief until the next time. There is no such thing as a cure for terminal agony. These 35 million customers repeat visits on the understanding that they are being told the truth.

The First Rule of Customer Service:

Never lie to a customer!

 To be caught in a lie means the immediate loss of that customer and all future income. The Board is fully aware of this and the fact that their continuous denial regarding any medical benefit of Cannabis has created doubts about their honesty. To reassure the paying public of their integrity as Doctors the CMA took an unorthodox tactic and resolved to review its Position regarding Marijuana.

They requested the Office for Public Health (OPH) to (a) update its policy on medical marijuana; and b) ask the federal government to update the MMAR program and reinstate support for research into the safety and efficacy of marijuana and cannabinoids. The (OPH) reviewed all of the published literature on medical marijuana to find testimonial evidence of any beneficial effects and they could find no evidence to examine. That is quite true but that was the intent of limiting the study to “published” evidence and avoiding any consideration of hundreds of verbal declarations of CURES that have been uttered.

For clarification:

1.    a declaration is a simple statement of fact when no cure is expected.

2.    a testimonial is evidence only if the recipient believed his cure to be impossible and is announcing a Miracle has occurred!

The moment this knowledge is revealed to the public the CMA is proven a Liar and no longer worthy of trust of 35 million paying customers.

LIARS

At this point in time I have no idea what can be done to correct a medical system totally controlled by a bunch of amoral profiteers who fear the loss in repeat profits. 

I do not want Dr. Louis Francescutti the President of the Canadian Medical Association advising Health Canada regarding anything to do with what is best for the medical care of the citizens and residents of Canada when they are a proven pack of liars. 

The CMA is nothing but a Union of Political Lobbyists on a Wildcat Strike! 

Somehow I doubt Rona Ambrose will order them back to work!

One thing for certain: we will never get any monetary help from them!

CANNABIS CURES CANCER

PROVE ME WRONG!

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy