10th June 2005

Battle of the post was a draw today, there was a recorded delivery so I had to answer the door so it doesn’t count, 2 applications today, both contacted, both now new buddies members

Had a phone call off A, before he was a buddie member he was busted 7 times for cultivation, 7 times in court, 7 fines the maximum being £50.00, this all happened within 18 months, so he moved to another part of the country. You guessed it, was busted in his new home (different police force) for cultivation, 6 coppers, they even dragged from his wheelchair to put him in the back of a police car. A, has also suffered 8 heart attacks and the police are lucky they did not have a corpse on their hands

His latest court case is being taken to crown court and A, is pleading not quilty all the way, his court case had been adjourned until 1/8/05 as the Judge was waiting on the ruling form the COA,

We are helping A with his court case and his case against the police for assault, 8 messages on the answer phone today, all dealt withI phoned Kelvin today, but had to leave a message on his voice mail

"Hi Kelvin, Jeff Ditchfield here, I need your advice, I have just opened an envelope addressed to myself, but it contains a mail shot from one of our shop suppliers, should the envelope go in my home bin as it is addressed to me personally or should it go in the business bin as it contained business correspondence,? Please let me know"

I had to go out this afternoon, things to do, M from thc4ms phoned and told me about todays developments, M & L are on bail and since the COA ruling we now have continuing operations against thc4ms then I suspect charges are due to made against them. Two, maybe three police forces are involved with thc4ms and I would hazard a guess that there is a fourth in NWP, it could even be National Crime Squad, after all thc4ms and bud buddies are both criminal organisations, we have hundreds of criminal members, all involved with an illegal drug on a daily basis, we have connections to other such groups throughout the world, we cultivate, conspire, possess, supply, and produce an illegal drug,.

I have to assume that if they are pursuing thc4ms then they must be equally interested in BB,

Maybe that medi-user demonstration will happen sooner than we thought. We need to make Fathers 4 Justice look like complete amateurs, to be fair they have set a high standard for gaining publicity but I reckon we have more ‘sneaky little shits’ then they have, I’m ready, I know M & L are also ready, but we do not want this fight, we know that the sick people we help are going to suffer, but unfortunately this government doesn’t seem to care about sick peoples suffering

9th June 2005

And again!!!!! I got the mail, that damn dog is losing his touch!

Normal mail stuff, 5 BB applications today, but only two complete, also 8 feedback forms returned, 5 messages on the answer machine

N. called in again, he complained that his new speech computer makes him sound like a yank

A, called in for a jar of cream

Then Danny came into the office and whispered “there’s a Kelvin from the council asking for you”

“Ask him if its Kelvin from accounts or environmental health”

“What?”“Just do it”

On Danny’s return “from environmental health”

After letting him wait for 10 minutes

“Hello”

“Good afternoon Mr Ditchfield”

“Hello, Kelvin, would you like a coffee?”

“I’m fine thank you”

“Go on, it’s fair trade, the best coffee in Rhyl”

“Okay then, I’ll have a small black coffee”

No one can talk when the coffee machine is on ;)

After I give him his coffee, I take a sip of mine

“What do you think?”

“Very nice”

“I’m glad you like it, that will be £1.70 please”

“Oh, oh, right, thank you” and he hands over a grubby fiver that I promptly hold up to the light and pull faces at the queen before putting it in the till and giving him his change

“What can I do for you?”

“We spoke on the phone the other day, I am Kelvin Hughes”

“Do you have any ID?”

He hands over his ID card and I study his photograph intently before handing it back

“Mr Ditchfield, I am investigating an alleged incident and I must warn you that anything you say…”

“Hold on, STOP, are you reading me my rights?”

“Yes Mr Ditchfield, you have…………”

“No, please stop”“Mr Ditchfield, I have to…………..”

“Look, I am not going to let you read me my rights, I struggle to keep a straight face when a copper does it, some coppers think it is illegal to give sick people bits of a plant to make them feel better, so what makes you think I can let you do it?”

"Any way, I can't sell you any cannabis"

"I don't want any"

"Good, I can't let you have any, unless you are ill?"

“Mr Ditchfield, I am investigating an incident and as part of my investigation…………..”

“Look, why do you feel the need to read me my rights?, do you have to do it as part of your job or is it just a hobby of yours?”

“Anything you say may be……...”

“Stop it, you’re trying to do it again, stop, look at it from my point of view, if I accept that an investigative bin man can read me my rights, then where will it end, I’ll have traffic wardens offering me cautions next, I’m sorry I just cannot take you or your job seriously”

“What is this alleged incident anyway?”

“Well I am lead to believe that some waste under your control…”

“Can we just get to the point?”

“A bin bag was found at the rear of your property containing waste from your business”

“So?”

“Waste from a business is not eligible for collection by the domestic refuse collection service and therefore is a clear case of fly tipping”

“But we have a bin from WasteEaters and pay them for disposing of our business waste”

“Well how do you explain this then?” and produces an envelope addressed to the Beggars Belief “That is addressed to your business address and therefore it is business waste”

“Not necessarily, if you’d bothered to check you’d find that I live at the flat above, maybe I opened my mail in my flat and therefore it is private waste as I read it in my home,”

“Strictly speaking it is business waste, however I will pass on what you have said to the County solicitor and he will decide if any further action should be taken”

“So is that it?”

“Yes Mr Ditchfield, we will contact you if further action is to be taken”

“Goodbye”

That relieved my stress for the day and then it was back to the day to day stuff

Went out for a bit of gardening and to finish off the batch of cream, then back to the shop, chips and plaice for my tea, a large pile of filing all filed and take the dogs out

And a big thank you to Kelvin for providing the light relief

8th June 2005

And by the way, the funny smell coming from the drains that Gary has been complaining about for the past few days turns out to be the dead junkie who lived next door .

Pretty quiet morning, not much in the way of mail but it was all retrieved intact, Stanni must be losing his touch

No telephone messages to answer either and not much in the way of phone calls, we had a couple of reports today of ‘missing’ care packages, but I’m not the paranoid type so I am not going to lose any sleep over it.

Replacements have been sent, along with 80 pre-rolled of our finest to L

Again, no breakfast, but I made up for it at lunch and went out for a fry up

I also sent R some flowers from BB

This afternoon brought a phone call from G, he was in hospital last week and usually the nurses don’t mind his little bag of ground BB herb, they even put it into his yoghurt for him. However there is apparently a new matron or sister in charge and she flushed his herb down the toilet and told him he was lucky she wasn’t reporting him to the police, he’s 74, suffers from MS and cancer and he spoke on my behalf at my last Crown Court trial. What a cow! But I will sort her out at a later date, I’ve asked G to let me know the next time he has to go in and I will bring in the volcano and some capsules,

Been to see my sister this afternoon, she’s just come out of hospital after being cut out of her car after a bad accident. Last week she was forced off the road by some dick in a van who then drove off after forcing her car down an embankment, the car ended up on its roof and the fire brigade had to cut her out. She’s a nurse at the local Eye Hospital and will be off work for three months, skull fracture, 3 fractured vertebrae, one crushed vertebrae, cracked ribs, broken nose, black eyes, and bruising. She was on her way to feed her horse when the accident happened, luckily she didn’t have the kids with her.

When she came round in hospital she was pleased to see her husband who told her that it was all quite ironic really as her horse had a bad fall that afternoon and the vet had to come out and put it down. He really is a prat at times

After visiting my sis I sorted out some capsules, by the way 500ml of canna oil makes 870 capsules, and I got a new batch of canna cream on the go

There were a couple of messages waiting for me when I got back to the shop, but straight forward stuff really

I'm feeling pretty positive and tomorrow I'm going out to do a bit of gardening That’s about it for today, I am now going to take the dogs down to the beach for a bit of a run

7th June 2005

Damn it!, Stanni won today, he got to the mail first, I was upstairs when I heard the letter box rattle, Stanni was quicker than Tony Blair after a band wagon, and with Danzig (Great Dane) all 15 stone getting in the way I didn’t stand a chance.

There were only two chewed envelopes, one from Readers Digest and an electricity bill; with the score so far this week at one all, I think I have a chance.

I thought I’d better have breakfast today, but only 2 rounds of toast shared between me and the dogs, The usual suspects in the mail today, bills, invoices, buddies paperwork, and a letter from Denbighshire County Council to go to the police station to make a statement regarding an accusation of fly tipping! I telephoned Mr Kelvin Hughes the Environmental Enforcement Officer dealing with the accusation

Me: “Kevin?”

Kelvin: "Kelvin Hughes, how can I help you?”

“Jeff Ditchfield from Water St, I have received a letter from you”

“Ah yes, Mr Ditchfield, I need to interview you regarding an investigation into an incident concerning a quantity of controlled waste which was allegedly deposited onto unlicensed land”

“What?”

“Investigations I have carried out indicate that at the time of the alleged incident you were the person who had control of the waste, therefore I now need to interview you regarding this matter”

“Look Kevin”

“It’s Kelvin”

“Can you spell that?”

“K – E – L – V – I – N”

“You mean like Kevin but with an L in it”

“Yes, look, we need to arrange a time for you to attend Rhyl police station for the interview to take place”

(silence)

“Mr Ditchfield are you still there”

“Yes sorry, I was trying to think of how many Kelvin’s I know, I know 5 Kevin’s but no Kelvin’s, do you know any?”

“Ermm, I think there’s a Kelvin in accounts”

“Sorry I don’t know him”

“Mr Ditchfield, we seem to be getting away from the matter in hand, when would be convenient for the interview”

“When cannabis is legal again, until then I am very busy helping seriously ill people with cannabis, so I can’t really spare the time”

“You are entitled to have your solicitor present”

“So?”

“Mr Ditchfield, I must advise you that I have a wide range of options and powers available to me and if you do not attend the police station as requested I will have to consider other courses of action”

“Do you have the power of arrest?”

“No”

“Am I under any legal obligation to attend the police station as you have requested?”

“No, but………”

“Well in that case, you consider your other courses of action and get back to me”

“I will”

“Thank you Kevin, Goodbye”

It was then back to proper work, opening and reading feedback forms, updating members records, the Pot of Gold seems very effective for those suffering pain, good analgesic properties and quite long lasting.

The feedback on the latest capsules (batch 0606CA) is very promising too. I remembered to order the empty capsules, they should be here tomorrow

Answer phone messages, 6 today, luckily all pretty straight forward

Work on re-stocking buddies members, but we are out of capsules so capsule requests are put to one side,

Also getting low on cream, so I will have to get a batch on tomorrow after the capsules have been sorted,

Lunch, sardines on toast, I just had a real craving for them, but as always, shared with the dogs

N, called into the shop today, he is a member with an inoperable brain tumour, he’s been in a chair for a while and his speech has always been affected but now he can’t speak at all. His Brother has given up his job to act as full time carer. I haven’t seen N for a few weeks, so we sat outside the shop and chatted for a bit, it was great to see N sat in his electric scooter laughing with the half inflated bag of a volcano in his hand, N, went off, happy with 20 pre-rolled of our best

Bits of paperwork next, paying bills, writing letters, and a special one to the Home Office

Up until then it was all going quite well, R telephoned to inform us that M had passed away, he was the member from Coventry who we took a vap down to,

We stopped a terminally ill man from taking his own life, a man so desperate to stop his pain that he dragged himself out of the house and into the garage so he could kill himself, all the resources of the NHS couldn’t stop him doing that, they failed him, but we didn’t, and we did it all with a bit of a plant.

So because of us and a bit of a plant M was able to see his son play football, and if I have to do 14 years for that, then f*ck them, bring it on!

Today hasn't been such a good day

Cannabis Cream sent by BB to the Home Office

The following correspondence was sent to the Home Office

Home Office
D L E U
315 Horseferry House
Dean Ryle Street
LondonSW1 H 9AT

6th June 2005

Your ref DDA 04 0023/0003/02

Dear Mr Vale

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding to your last communication As previously explained, I wish to cultivate cannabis and use the crop in the preparation of a cream to be used by arthritis suffers. A person known to me has been making such a cream for a number of years and they have been supplying it to arthritis suffers free of charge. In support of my application I enclose a jar of the cream, I believe I have the authority to do this under section 5 (4) of the misuse of drugs act. The cream contains, organic cannabis, organic olive oil, essential oil of lavender and beeswax. The Cream is 100% natural, no chemicals are used in the production of this product.

The cream is for external application only, it cannot be smoked, ingested nor can a person ‘get high’ by using it. I believe this fulfils Government criteria for a cannabis based preparation

I can supply you with letters from people who have used this cream and they will testify to its effectiveness, however as they are using an illegal product (cannabis) I would require your assurance that NO legal action would be taken against any individual

Yours truly

J. Ditchfield

6th June 2005

Officially Sunday and Mondays are our days off, which coincide with our shop openings, however, illness and disease have no holidays so in reality, we never stop

Up at 8.30am today, staggered downstairs and let the dogs outside to do their stuff

For some strange reason, Stanni (the Rhodesian Ridgeback) has taken a real dislike to the postman, and goes absolutely nuts when he hears the letterbox being opened. Every morning it is a race to who gets the mail first, today I won, so the mail was in one piece

Usual bills and junk mail plus four new applications, two fully completed, two without supporting information, returned the two incomplete with requests for confirmation of illness

Telephoned the two new applicants whose information was complete, ran through a Q&A session and completed our membership process, two new bud buddies added

Checked answerphone, 7 messages all from Buddies, returned callsChecked e-mails, requests for assistance, requests for advice,

Lunch - Bag of chrisps (cheese and onion)

Sorted out the requests for help, capsules, cream and bud, sent out along with feedback formsOut for a few hours this afternoon, visit to the bank, shopping,

Start a new batch of capsules, 50 grams of extractor into 1 litre of hemp seed oil, left to simmer

Get back and feed the dogs

Damn it!!!, forgot to order a new delivery of empty capsules, will have to do it tomorrow

It is now 6.30pm, still got a stack of filing to do, but that can wait, it's our day off!!!!!