The Dangers of Marijuana Challenged

Rebutting Rona’s Rotten Ramblings

Another Voice Speaks Out

I am please to present the first of what I hope will be many guest contributions to this Blog. On April 30, 2014 Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health announced a new government program to create more opposition to Cannabis use. As justification she presented a fabrication of its dangers to our youth. Fortunately for us Wayne Phillips took the time to write the following revelation of the distortions in her announcement which can be seen at the link referenced below.

Re: Health Canada Highlights Dangers of Marijuana Use for Youth,

OTTAWA, April 30, 2014/CNW

http://news.gc.ca/web/articleen.do?mthd=index&crtr.page=1&nid=844329

The Wicked Bitch of the East

The Dangers of Marijuana Challenged

Wayne P. Phillips, May 4, 2014

Health Minister Rona Ambrose hosted a roundtable with representatives of the healthcare community and research experts today to discuss the scientific evidence of the risks associated with the use of marijuana by youth, especially over the long term. This meeting, of course, builds on a presentation where Minister Ambrose announced funding for A Health Promotion and Drug Prevention Strategy for Canada's Youth - a national project led by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA). How else would Health Minister Ambrose find support for her Ministry's convoluted fabrications posing as “scientific” evidence unless there were funding involved. Minister Ambrose's roundtable speaks to the (lack of) credulity of the current government; moreover, it flies in the face of history.

The 1923 House of Commons Debates, 14th of March, 1923, pages 1136 – 2124 under the title, "Narcotic Drugs Act Amendment Bill the "Hon. H.S. Béland1 (Minister of Health) moved for leave to introduce Bill No. 72 to amend the Narcotic Drugs Act. He said, "The purpose of this bill is principally to consolidate previous legislation for the suppression of the traffic in narcotic drugs. . . ." Not only did the inclusion entail an act of tergiversation - that is, falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language – on the part of the Minister of

Health, Dr. H.S. Béland, the inclusion allowed for the transition of an

unspecified commodity. “There is a new drug in the schedule.” was all that was said. Moreover, the purpose of the bill, the consolidation, in effect was tantamount (in effect) to the manufacturing of a social problem. There was no traffic of cannabis in 1923. Panic and Indifference by Giffen, Lambert and Endicott also describe how “cannabis indica or hasheesh” was added by some unknown hand later.

Recently CBC News published an article by Daniel Schwartz entitled “Marijuana was criminalized in 1923, but why?” What the article failed to mention however that what was being consolidated, cannabis indica (Indian hemp), was a Proprietary or Patented Medicines Act commodity at the time of the transition in 1923. So consequently by not specifying what was being transitioned in 1923, the whole medicinal aspects of cannabis was, in effect, denied by the very

department that is still denying it today. The agenda is a Health Canada legacy.

Minister of Health, Rona Ambrose, states, “As Health Minister, I am standing side by side with medical professionals and researchers with a clear message -- There are serious health risks for youth associated with marijuana. It is not safe. It should not be promoted or endorsed. Together, with our partners we will work to make sure youth and parents have the right information about the risks associated with smoking and using marijuana.”

Fair enough. It should not be promoted or endorsed. How then is the inclusion of cannabis in the CDSA not, in and of itself, an endorsement? And, if Minister of Health, Ambrose, is so concerned with “health risks for youth associated with marijuana”, why then would the Minister want to see cannabis/marijuana legislated in a manner that insures the perpetuation of its availability to the very youth she claims to be concerned about? How can the Minister deem to have the right information about any supposed risks associated

with marijuana when the Minister's agenda of perpetuating a social problem is the only primary concern for either the Minister or Health Canada.

The actions, words and motives of Health Minister Ambrose are as questionable today in 2014 as Health Minister H.S. Béland's were in 1923. He sought to consolidate what she (in this instance) seeks to perpetuate. In order to do that Minister Ambrose must continue to rail in the face of both history and court rulings that in both instances recognize cannabis as medicine. As such, funding health promotion and drug prevention become red herrings to distract both media and the general public from the fact that the inclusion of cannabis

in the CDSA is precisely that which perpetuates the problem thereby increasing the probability of youth becoming vulnerable. It doesn't matter how much funding is provided because the underlying agenda is perpetuating usage not safeguarding youth.

Health Canada's new Medical Marijuana Program Regulations (MMPR) and Health Minister Ambrose's position has prompted further concerns for Canadians as the Conservative government sought to unceremoniously transition those holding Authorizations To Possess (cannabis) from the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) to the new program. Given the fact that the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) is a court ordered program that continues to be challenged as unconstitutional, for the Government to think that a new program can be just enacted as if it were business as usual more than demonstrates the degree of dysfunction this type of irrationality, for which Health Minister H.S. Béland should ultimately be held to accounts for (posthumously), is capable of.

Increasingly though those holding Authorizations To Possess (cannabis) under the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) are taking up the call to stand side by side with the 200+ Canadians that have already filed Statements of Claim for a two dollar Registry fee using the John Turmel Kits at

http://johnturmel.com/kits.htm  or http://johnturmel.com/mmprinst.htm

 after B.C. Lawyer John Conroy's Allard Ruling left many, who either did not fall under the time-frames specified or beyond the 150 gram limit, out. Many that did fall under the time-frames specified could also, for numerous other reasons not mentioned, count themselves among the Left-Outs as well. The Turmel Kits are provided in numerous formats and YouTube videos outline the process. The time is long overdue for Health Canada and the Minister to acknowledge the wrongheadedness of Health Canada's gambit and seriously consider the idea of reparations. Canadians know about both cannabis and its world renowned medical properties. Moreover, the idea of maintaining the pretext of health promotion and drug prevention in the face of the inclusion of cannabis in the CDSA stands as both the crime of the century and the joke of the century.

The Risk Research Assessment Program A Proposal for Peace!

The Risk Research Assessment Program

A Proposal for Peace!

The Canadian Medical Association and the Provincial Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons have finally succeeded in sticking their heads all the way up where the sun doesn’t shine. 

The Doctors have now taken the initiative and in return for their signature want total control of the Doctor/ Patient relationship. They accompany this with an exorbitant ever escalating scale of fees in the hundreds of dollars. We have a profession that, after admitting that they don’t know shit from shinola about any of the aspects of Medicinal Cannabis use or treatment, are demanding complete control of a patients treatment under threat of terminating their prescription for disobedience.

That is not going to fly. There is no way that a patient who has spent years developing a mode of treatment that suits his complaint is going to surrender control over his treatment and obey a dumb-fucker on a learning curve from nowhere.

What is most surprising to me is that I advised them to take the exact opposite approach and give the patient control of his treatment and teach the doctor out of his dumb-fucker state. I made this in the form of a proposal for a joint research project to Dr. Louis Francescutti after his appointment to the CMA Presidency. I was ignored as is standard practice for the CMA.

Since then I have watched the profession fester with resentment and they are now in an impossible situation making unreasonable demands that cannot be met because they have destroyed all confidence in their role as a trustworthy source of help.

I may be a fool or simply overly optimistic but I believe that there is a way to break the current impasse if only the profession will listen and understand that they need to show some humanity and understanding and above all negotiate a middle ground to establish a workable Doctor/Patient relationship in Cannabis Treatment and establish its benefit on a factual basis.

So where does that leave us now?

In a position where we can ignore Government influence and resolve the differences in goals of Doctors and Patients by partnering to a new instructional model and eliminating the shortage of information that so plagues Doctors in the assumption of the risk of treatment. To this end I now repeat the proposal I made the CMA to establish a joint Program to collect the missing information.

The Risk Research Assessment Program

We have two groups interested in the Medical aspect of the problem but at extreme ends of the treatment scale. The CMA wants good information regarding all aspects of Cannabis therapy and the Potential Patient population has all the answers. There is no communication between the two and unless that gap is eliminated there will never be a solution found.

The complexity of the problem becomes even more convoluted when the number of variables to be considered is magnified a thousand times. A large number of the patients most concerned are those who over the course of years have devised a personal treatment that works for them. They have selected hybrids as a source crop, and complex processing procedures to make the medications they use to successfully alleviate their symptoms. As a collective they possess all the knowledge the CMA needs and they need the CMA for a signature to purchase and possess their raw materials.

I am no doctor but I am a damned good statistician, a superb analyst and I’ve got excellent common sense. Combine that with humility that is exceeded only by my good looks and you wind up with brilliance or a fool. I believe that there is a way to break this impasse and I am now proposing it to you for your judgment of its merit. It will need polishing but it could work but only if the CMA assumes its proper role as a leader of a profession devoted to the welfare of patients. At the moment they are paralyzed by an obsession with risks and are blockading effective treatment and that must stop.

The risks they fear can neither be qualified nor quantified: What are the risks and how serious are they? They don’t know what they fear and my proposal is that they start doing some Research to find out what the Bogeyman is. The CMA is the only one who can! They have mistakenly interpreted the MMPR as requiring them to authorize the use of marijuana as a medical treatment. It does no such thing.

The responsibility of the physician under the MMPR limited to the same declaration required by the MMAR. Whatever steps taken to establish grounds for a signature, all the attending Physician is doing is certifying an applicant has symptoms of a disease that requires further treatment. There neither is any recommendation as to what that treatment shall be, nor is it a prescription for medication. It merely establishes the right to purchase and possess as much cannabis as required for the patient’s medical needs. The origin of the Cannabis purchased, legal or illegal, is none of the physician’s concern nor is the quantity purchased. All his signature accomplishes is giving the Patient immunity from arrest and prosecution for possessing his medication: If he elects to buy pot instead of a stereo.

Let’s Make A Deal and use our Combined strength against Harper for leverage

The one thing that is certain is that Stephen Harper wants his Commercialization of Marijuana to succeed. A continuing blockade to Customers by Doctors is not to be desired when the doors to his Marihuana Monopoly scheme open for business. The CMA should have a really good look at the huge pile of money he’s talking about. A billion and a half?

Gee? I wonder what our Fearless Leader would pay for Doctors to wholeheartedly agree to support his program in the interests of speeding up the supply transfer to Licensed Growers and no shortages to patients.

Minimum 10% Max? plus immunity from risk. Not too much to ask:

This is risky business so the CMA should request financing to start a Research Program to assess that risk. There is a risk of a completely unknown probability and any Doctor participating as a researcher and dealing within the program must be exempted with no liability that for outcome under both Criminal or Civil jurisdictions.

The Program would allow any licensed physician to participate as a researcher subject to guidance regarding the Doctor/Patient relationship that will be established per protocol.

This is a simple trade. Any doctor feeling qualified to do so can establish a legally binding relationship with a Patient that exchanges

access to cannabis for complete disclosure of the patient’s treatment regimen and detailed follow ups to assess progress.

The CMA wants data related to both the short and long term use of marijuana regardless of method of use or product used and dosage. There is none. Gather some! Get off your ass and gather some

Patients want maintenance of the level of medication they are currently using for relief of their particular symptoms preferably in the same form or better if found. Provide

Create a research project to gather the data you want with a trade.

The Doctor trades his approval for a patient’s medication requirement because he is participating in research, supplying an experimental drug and recording the treatment progress in order to assess its effects. Because it is an assessment of risk there must be no responsibility or liability for an unexpected bad outcome. Ensure that factor with Health Canada.

The Doctor must be in control of the relationship and its procedural requirements but the patient retains control over what is done with the marijuana after purchase. The patient trades detailed access to his treatment regimen and medical progress and any changes made for the right to obtain or create his own medication, He agrees to periodic reports and/or assessments to be determined. At this point there are 30,000+ potential research subjects waiting for the opportunity to share their knowledge for weed. All they need to know is that some doctor is going to look after their interests instead of their own and the flood gates will open.

As a statistician I am astounded by the immense pool of information about cannabis medical utility that can be extracted from 30000 users and the speed that it can be now be analyzed and understood.

With an intelligent first examination by the doctor and a structured interview, his physical symptomology and its severity is known, and a baseline established that can be expanded to include:

1.    A complete history of the patient’s use and treatment mode

2.    A marijuana sample to be used for genetic and pharmacological analysis

3.    A sample of any creams, oils, teas, or any product ingested

4.    An identification of the method of use

If all 30000 of the growers responded for just that first interview you could pull complete knowledge about every hybrid plant’s genetics and its potential as a producer of whatever cannabinoids are the effectors in any product used. You now have an established baseline: with a reasonable repeat assessment and interview schedule and the help of the patient you can measure whatever is changed in the treatment regimen and the THC and CBD composition in whatever product they are using and a verbal follow up on physical benefits.

One other point that should be noted by the CMA re their role in the matter: opposing is simply inflicting aggravation on patients who already have enough to worry about with the loss of personal and designated growth. Your signatures are of diddly shit importance to any potential grower who is in the position of having to grow his own because he cannot afford purchase it at current price levels. They are doomed to grow criminally under threat of arrest by the Cops and ruination from misguided building inspectors if their medication source is discovered.

That is a sourdough ending to what I think is a reasonable path to reconciliation and the restoration of a Doctor/Patient relation based on respect and trust. That is a far better outcome than a continuation of the current Doctor/Patient relationship based on lies, paranoia, fear and contempt. It can’t get any worse for the CMA image as seen by the Medical Marijuana Patient Community: They’re an arrogant collection of unsympathetic liars who don’t give a damn about their patient pool. These ethical cretins are primarily interested in their own professional and financial security, not in our patient welfare. The CMA does not represent doctors: It is simply a lobbyist representing the commercial interests of a ridiculously intertwined snarl of corporations owned by Doctors that owns and controls the Canadian Medical System.

Nasty and unwelcome as this professional image has become, it’s completely warranted by the twelve years of obstinacy, opposition and misinformation accorded Medical Marijuana by the CMA that prompted me to write this.

Thanks for your interest

Blaine Barrett

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Rona’s Riotous Reception

Rona’s Riotous Reception

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Ottawa July 17, 2013

Peaceful  Protest Erupts in Violence

Yesterday The MMRP Ladies Auxiliary assembled on Parliament to welcome our new Minister of Health: The Honourable Rona Ambrose.  As such she has been given the task of implementing the commercial boondoggle that Leona Aglukkaq is leaving behind with her mismanagement of the MMAProgram. The group had prepared a short protest note they wished to present regarding the banning of all personal growth.

The announcement was set for 10 AM but the ladies arrived early to secure a front row position. They posed for a group photo to commemorate the event.

The MMRP Ladies Auxiliary

They then engaged in welcoming every new arrival with huge smile. They introduced themselves as advocates for patients, presented an informational brochure to tell what the problems were,  and gave each a welcoming gift an extremely potent and delicious sample of “Mellow Yellow”- Medible #269. Its 75% secret cannabinoids has won world wide acclaim for its benefits. It produces a state of euphoric stress relief: anxiety about the future is replaced by anticipation of pleasure: tactile sensitivity of erogenous zones is magnified many times(Patent Application in process.)

There are 3 common side effects that some people find problematic:

1. Stupid grin and giggle attacks at inappropriate times:

2.A tendency to scream and react badly when their enjoyment is disturbed: and

3. A resent of authority that can erupt in violence if sensed when stoned.

At 9:30 AM the Cops arrived in force to control the terrorist activity CSIS claimed was being promoted on Sacred Government Ground. Their timing couldn’t have been worse. 32 SWAT teams arrived with screaming sirens and disturbed the tranquility of the now stoned audience. They sent spies to penetrate the crowd, single out the Ladies Auxiliary and forcibly tried to remove them from the crowd.  The Ladies having followed Brian Barpile’s Martial Arts posts forcibly resisted, the screaming started and all hell started to break loose.

The remaining Cops tried to kettle the crowd with riot shields and Billy clubs but this mass exertion of authority was too much and side effect #3 kicked in. The riot lasted a full hour and only ended with the arrival and hosing down of the crowd by 4 Water Cannons that cooled tempers and quiet was restored.

There were 213 arrests for a variety of offenses but the large majority (142) were the result of one officer witnessing another getting his balls or ass kicked.   The majority of these will be dismissed if the accused pleads ignorance and claims he didn’t know Cops had Balls.

Further updates will be provided as events develop but these are impossible to predict as they are all controlled by 

Stinkin Stephen’s Thinkin

Go figure

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