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

The Year Ahead- Bumps and Hazards

( Shotgun Kiss by Megan Allard of Vancouver )

WHERE THE HELL ARE WE GOING?

Good Bloody Question.

I’m sorry I haven’t been posting more but this New Year poses some real new questions. I’ve been sitting her brainstorming trying to sort the crap out with regard to what I have already got going and what to start looking at.

1. <><><><><><><> Extensions <><><><><><><><><>

We’re only 3 weeks into the New Year and the game is changing again. FB rumor has it that HC is going to start granting extensions for what? Growth? Nobody knows what’s happening or is going to happen. When does the Crime for growing more than six plants take effect? Is Justice going to delay its implementation to help HC defuse the price crisis that is going to happen in April? We know there isn’t going to be any subsidization as long as Mr. Harper is in the Driver’s Seat: The Government he’s driving does have a reverse gear: he’s just too dumb to find it.

2. <><><><><><><> Doctors <><><><><><><><><>

Regardless of what the HC does, what are the Physicians going to do now? It doesn’t matter what HC does with licenses as long as Physicians are the only ones who can sign applications to get them and they refuse and stay on strike. I can’t see them backing off and that is going to cause very severe problems in the not too distant future.

Canadian doctors are totally hung up on their self image as a member of a Brotherhood: a brotherhood worthy of respect and admiration for its dedication to the welfare of their patients. They are not. The Brotherhood is in violation of its Oath.

Members of the Physicians’ brotherhood in ancient times were granted the honorific title Doctor to precede their name. This was more than recognition of the honor and respect due them for their physical sacrifice and service in the care of the community. They were an integral component of a village size pool of patients within which they voluntarily wandered, and lived with as they rendered their medical treatment. As a semi-family member these physicians were privy to all social relationships of the community he serviced.

The title Doctor was granted more in recognition of an individual’s wisdom and guidance as an empathetic counselor and source of comfort and understanding. He alone was intimately aware of all the pressures in play both on the individual patient, and the community dependant on that patient. He knew his patients from birth until death; he knew their contribution and what their loss would mean to every member of the community.

Now I get to criticize our Modern Members of the CMA for their arrogance in demanding the impossible knowledge that is already available and refusing to sign. They have no idea of the damage they are inflicting on the patient pool they are sworn to support and not harm. I think I am going to enjoy pointing their short comings out.

3. <><><>< More Criminal Cop Crap ><><><>

Whatever happens with Harpo, Health Canada and the doctors: it has bugger-all influence when it comes to the CCC (Corrupted Canadian Cops): They’ve got the Blue Brotherhood; the Only Cops investigate Cops restrictions, and the abuse of self incrimination pleas to escape any penalty or incriminate others. They have become callous, arrogant and abusive and now face no deterrent to their violations of law and rights. I will continue to press for prosection of the OPP for Criminal Negligence.That will be a continuing focus over the coming year.

I just sent a Freedom of Information request to the Ministry of Justice asking for the complete file of my refused complaint and appeal. That will take 30 days? So I have time to investigate the possibilities of a weapon that will scare the hell out of cops. I think we have one at hand but it is only useful if it results in making all cops apprehensive about their job security and bad conduct penalties TBA.

4. <><><><> Grow-op Bylaw Exemption ><><><><><><>

In regard to my Questions to Surrey City Council about an exemption for Personal and Dedicated Growth in the city Bylaw structure I spoke to a lawyer for the City of Surrey this week and I didn’t get very far with obtaining an answer. I could not get answers to specific questions and I honestly didn’t know if he had read my complaint so I asked him if he had. He said he had so I advised him I wanted a lot more specific answers and I wanted them in writing. He agreed and I am now waiting for that. TBA

5. <><><><><> The Israeli Photo Op <><><><><><><

So Monday, Parliament is back and we get to watch the Circus in motion when they get down to business.

Now we don’t have to wait for Stevie boy to get back and down to business, the break has been business as usual. He just got back from a trip to Israel and Arabville. He did his usual spouting of lies and throwing away of money that should better be spent at home.

He just kissed his buddy President Benjamin’s arse and bought the Israeli public with his show of support and anti- Muslim rhetoric. Then, to deal with a stupid war with no end, dumps a half billion bucks split between Israel, Palestine, and Jordan. He’s handing out money to sworn enemies like a fucking drunken sailor does a whore. One side’s going to finance illegal settlements and the other is going to buy arms. Israel, Palestine, Jordan can now expect a whore’s treatment and get a fucking of some sort sooner or later

That Photo Op pretty much was a sheer waste of money but I don’t think that was the point of the trip. The point of the trip was an attempt to impress the average Jewish voter that should there be an election in Canada, Hanukkah Harpo is the guy to promote. How I think he attempted to accomplish this is another post to look forward to. LOL

6. <><><><>Too Much Shit To List<><><><>

While the foregoing items are the focus of interest at the moment, this year will see the continuance of all the contentious issues that have resulted from the Conservatives attack on our social system with its built in protections of the citizenry. We have problems in almost every area of Government. Stephen Harper has intentionally invaded and corrupted departmental systems to control more and more of the functions of government. Shuffling personnel, changing departmental structures, changing committees to influence their decisions to favor the government: altering deadlines and reporting requirements to restrict or control information flow to the opposition.

No-one knows in what order they will surface but all of the areas neglected by the government are going to fester more in the next two years of King Harpo’s reign. Not much more to say now: we just get to sit and watch and hear what Stevie the Weevil is going to lie about next. On that depressing note, once I hit Publish on this post I’m going into the bathroom to have a little cry.

What a fucked up future!

I know!

“This too shall Pass”

but

NOT SOON ENOUGH!

An Open Letter of Complaint to Surrey’s Mayor and Council

I Have a Bone to Pick With Surrey

They Finally Crossed the Line

Ever since I discovered Surrey’s blockade of Medical Marijuana I have been sitting and stewing in my own juice. I have had to listen to Fire Chief Len Garis on his bully pulpit preaching against the growing of Marijuana as a threat to the Community and nobody has ever stood up and cried “BULLSHIT”. I tried to take a positive step towards preventing the damage they are bringing on Surrey and I got a slap in the face and ordered to stay off City Property with my clipboard.

WHY!

Go Figure?

No one else is doing it so I decided to ask why they are swallowing

BULLSHIT!

<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>

I just sent them this:

clerks@surrey.ca

Attn: Mayor and Council

CC:wmoriarty@theprovince.com,pcarlson@surreyleader.com,hmunro@vancouversun.com,contact@straight.com,editor@thetyee.ca,cbcnewsvancouver@cbc.ca,newsonline@ctv.ca,news@ctv.ca,bsimpson@thenownewspaper.com,

Re: Surrey Policy regarding Marijuana Growth and the SensibleBC Referendum

Greetings Mayor Watts and Council:

1.    My name is Blaine Barrett and I am a Medical Marijuana advocate and Licensee.

2.    I have lived in Surrey the past 22 years but if I was not married and anchored I would have left in disgust 5 years ago.

3.    I injured my back in 1999 and I still have a problem with pain flare ups and depression. Neurologically and Psychologically Marijuana allows me to function almost normally.

4.    It took me 7 years but I was finally able to find a doctor to sign my application and received my MMAD License in 2009. I am a Senior Citizen on fixed income and knowing Surrey had By-laws regarding grow-ops I decided to grow my own. My 2 gram per day dosage was small and would only require 10 plants. I have a large spare bathroom to create a grow-op so I decided to apply for a License.

5.    This City Council, where I chose to live, became my enemy when I discovered the complete impossibility of meeting any requirements to obtain a legal license to grow my own supply of marijuana for medication.

6.    Since the creation of the Medical Marihuana Access Regulations the City of Surrey, based largely on the advice of Fire Chief Len Garis has developed a set of prohibitive by-law requirements that stand as a model for the rest of Canadian Municipalities in effectively blocking any legal growth of Medical Marijuana

7.    Over the past decade Surrey Fire Chief Len Garis has been a tireless opponent of Grow-ops. He has established himself and the City as the leading opponents of Medical Marijuana Growth by creating a Bylaw structure that is impossible to meet except by a major corporation with unlimited finance.

8.    I wanted to grow perhaps 15 plants in a large closet and do it safely. I know how.

9.    In order to do so I must complete an application form requiring detailed planning beyond any individual’s ability. Even if I manage to complete the application it has to be accompanied by an initial Inspection fee of $3920. As a comparison my current 2 grams per day allowance will cost me $3780 dollars per year from Health Canada and next April will probably double in price. I will wind up paying $8-$10/gram or grow it for less than $2/gram. With inspection and supervision it can grown safely. I want to!

10.                       I am confident Council thinks there is a good basis of facts justifying the City’s opposition but reality is the whole structure is based on Chief Garis’s carefully crafted distortion of the risks involved with legal grow-ops and you have all been misled. He has established a reputation as the leading Canadian expert on home grow hazards and he’s using our By-law as a model to emulate and its all a pack of lies.

11.                       Chief Garis has spent the last ten years trumpeting the horrible consequences of permitting grow-ops: Fire Hazards, Safety hazards, toxic chemicals, home invasion, and danger to children, mold, and criminal involvement. Over and over he has pounded his allegations that all of these are related and inevitable with the cultivation of marijuana and that is a carefully and calculated lie and distortion of fact.

12.                       The risks that are constantly regurgitated by Chief Garis are the source of the New Health Canada Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations justification for establishing a no grow-op policy as a risk reduction measure. Chief Garis may have encountered all of the risks in his experience with Illicit Drugs and illegal criminal grow-ops but none of them are relevant to the growth of marijuana. The fact is that every one of them is ridiculous when applied to a legally licensed and monitored Grow-op. When someone applies for a license, check out the location and supervise the construction: then inspect it! If it’s not safe don’t license it. Simple common sense but Chief Garis can’t understand that.

13.                       There has been no attempt made by the City to keep up to date with advances in grow technology and reality is that there are grow tents and other facilities that separate the growth area from all its its surrounding environment and any possible interaction with the room surrounding is impossible except when opened for service. There are no hazards.

14.                       If the above dangers are real and are to be avoided there is nothing pro-active in Surrey policy to prevent them. As soon as the MMPR is implemented there is going to be a massive demand for affordable marijuana and there will be none: Not legal, not from the street. If you need your medication you have to grow it and when that day happens, Surrey is going to become deluged with small illegal grow- ops. There is no alternative.

15.                       The by-laws as they now stand are an impassable roadblock to any legal growth. The alternative of applying to the City for help in creating a safe grow-op has been eliminated. There is no access to guidance as to how to create a legal grow environment with none of the hazards to grow our medication. That option is not available and won’t be unless you make a crack in the wall. Nobody else can. Thanks to Chief Garis lead by creating this blockage you have now exposed every citizen of Surrey to far more serious hazard than the loss of property:

1. Arrest,

2. a Criminal Record,

3. a mandatory prison sentence, and

4. a ruined future life with lost opportunity.

16.                       Last week I set out and tried to prevent that happening. I recently received my Certification from Elections Canada as a Canvasser for the SensibleBC Referendum to Decriminalize Marijuana and I needed a site to do so and the Guildford Community Centre seemed a suitable place with a reasonable flow of traffic. I enquired and was told to contact City Hall for permission..

17.                       At the beginning of last week I contacted City Hall and asked if I could set up a small site at the Guildford Recreation Center to get signatures for the SensibleBC Referendum on Marijuana Decriminalization. My request was turned down on the grounds Surrey “does not allow solicitation on City Property” End of that! This did not compute.

18.                       The next morning I called again and protested: I advised the Manager I spoke to that a Referendum is not a Solicitation or signing of a petition: It is the exercise of a right to vote for a change in law. I was informed that was immaterial and there was no way that I could legally walk onto City Properly and ask for a signature.

19.                       I am here to protest that Surrey City Policy has trumped my rights as a Citizen of this Country, this Province, and of Surrey.

20.                        All Surrey citizens have the right to be informed of where the nearest voting location for the Referendum is, and I, as a Surrey citizen, have the right to inform him of that. I am a Registered Canvasser for SensibleBC, carrying Elections Canada Forms for signature. The SensibleBC program has had problems because people don’t know where to go to sign the Referendum. I am now forbidden to walk into a “public” space, contact a potential voter, identify myself and explain that if that person is interested in signing the Referendum and would like to know where to go to sign, he just found it.

21.                        Wake up. This Referendum has no connection to Marijuana (Medical or otherwise) and its growth, but “Decriminalization” of Marijuana is to prevent prosecution for possession under the Criminal Code of Canada. Our fearless leader, Stevie the Stupid seems determined to ram his omnibus bill, (including mandatory prison sentences for growers of more than six plants), and the new Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations through Parliament in April, If he succeeds, and it seems inevitable, we all have a problem but the main concern to me is for parents in the community The primary threat is to any teenager who against parental advice gets caught with any amount of marijuana in their possession. The fact is that every teen knows better than Dad at some point: errors in judgment are inevitable.

22.                       If both are passed, this Council, under the guidance of Chief Garis, will be guilty of placing every youth living in Surrey under threat of arrest, a Criminal Record, possible imprisonment, and a guaranteed loss of future opportunity as a consequence. THE MMPR is founded on the intentionally biased and distorted hazards presented by Surrey as your justification for installing by-laws to prevent personal growth. You bought Chief Garis bullshit and now you’re going to get bit back. Good on you.

23.                        In Conclusion there is one other matter that must be included. At the current moment: under Chief Garis lead Council is considering amendments to the Controlled Substance Property Bylaw that will require owners of residential properties containing medical marijuana grow-ops to remediate the facilities in order to protect future owners from health risks associated with growing the plant. There are none, it’s all lies.

24.                       The amendment is a paranoid premature money grab. There is no justification for Surrey to be able to enter my home to determine whether I am growing and hit me with an exorbitant inspection fee and if I am growing, post that information on file as a warning to any prospective buyer of my home to reduce their risk. Then you must report me to the same distorted justice to which you are going to expose your children: Arrest, a Criminal Record and possible imprisonment.

25.                       If protection of the future owner is the aim, simply make it mandatory that all premises be inspected if and when they are put up for sale. If I want to live in my home for the next twenty years until I die and never sell it. Why should I have to pay in advance? Any risk until my death is my risk. Do your punitive inspection then when I die. If there’s not enough bucks in my estate then burn the damned place, sell the property and give the proceeds to a charity I am quite prepared to name in my will if that option is open.

26.                       On a final note I am given to understand that Chief Garis has already bragged he has a hit list of 800 suspect properties to be inspected. If he has I want to know where he got that information. Given the rampant invasions of privacy that have plagued medical marijuana growers I suspect that Health Canada has already provided him with all the locations of licensed grow ops in Surrey. Every Licensee of the MMAR was given to believe that all their information was Top Secret in Health Canada files. I suspect that the Harper Government has reneged on that promise and every municipality in Canada has been provided with a hit list of Licensee’s holding production licenses.

In conclusion I only want answers to two questions:

1.    Why and where does Surrey get the authority to forbid me to canvass on city property?

2.    What is the source of Chief Garis 800 Suspect list?

Thank you for your time, attention and consideration

I look forward to your reply

Blaine Barrett

TheSmeeGoanGuy

255 10202-149St.

Surrey BC V3R 3Z8

Phn: 604-585-0236

E-mail: thesmeegoanguy@gmail.com

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!