blackberries + K
There have been sitings of black bear nearby and given the bumper blackberry crop this year it is easy to see why. Richard has been busy making jams (he is up to 50 jars now) and plans to enter his wares in the Brackendale Farmers Institute Fall Fair on September 9th in the jam category. So keep your fingers crossed for him!
Had a client today that was hooked on K or ketamine in the past. As this was my first exposure to K abuse (and was rather intrigued by the description of entering a ‘K-hole’) I looked it up this afternoon on Wikipedia. Ketamine is still widely used by vets as an anesthetic and pain-killer. One of its benefits is that is has less potential for respiratory arrest. It actually sounds like it has promise as a pain-killer for humans too as well as being a potent anti-depressant. I came across a reference to a John Lilly (the Timothy Leary of ketamine use) and as an academic he wrote largely about dolphins. He lived to be 86 so it appears that his dabbling in ketamine did not have a major impact on his mortality. But he likely had access to the pure stuff which is unlikely when purchased at street level. K is not popular in Squamish as it is more of a rave drug (this person was from Ontario) and so far I haven’t heard of any raves in Squamish.
