Graham de Barra

🌵 Regenerative Psychedelic Agroforestry 🌲A Japanese gardener designs a garden on a time scale where their grandchildren will not live to see it finished.

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

10 years ago I met with the Erkelens family at their Groningen facility and was given a tour of their intelligent GMP medical cannabis facility. They were prescribing oil through Traansval pharmacy in The Hague to the first patient in Ireland under Ministerial license.

During this time there were inflated valuations projected onto the industry and they had rejected a takeover offer from Tilray. Perhaps a regretful decision looking back now.

They asked me to start a joint venture to establish Bedrocan Ireland where they would hold 51% share that I turned down, and instead I moved to Portugal and founded my own licensed production where I own 100% debt-free independent from bank and VC money, bootstrapped by bitcoin.

The old cannabis industry players will suffer downturns and there are valuable lessons for new kids on-the-block to learn from. My suspicions peaked when I saw Bedrocan participate in the WEF in Davos rubbing shoulders with Epstein-class elites.

Thank you for pioneering the industry and supporting countless patients throughout the years.

RIP Bedrocan. My DMs are open for the 70 employees that might want to relocate to hotter climates ;)

https://t.co/lTXLrgi8OQ

[VOC Nederland @vocnederland]

Curator zit met honderden kilo's medicinale wiet na failliet enige Nederlandse teler
'Bedrocan heeft nog geprobeerd het faillissement te voorkomen. De bank zou bereid zijn geweest om de grootste schuld aan de energieleverancier voor te schieten.'
https://t.co/anyTUvRa1u

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@Rus_Emb_Ireland @grok what concrete examples did McEntee offer in her Dail speech claiming that there are permanent members of the UN Security Council vetoing Ireland's participation in peacekeeping missions? Past, present or potential future. This argument is used to justify the reform.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Dutch spies hacked Jared Kushner's iPhone and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions funneled from Azerbaijan, part of at least $2 billion MBS and MBZ placed for him after he promised to push their agenda with Trump, per a Vanity Fair excerpt.

"Jared was looking for shortcuts in his diplomacy. He promised MBZ that he'd push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a fund. He wanted normalization with Israel so that business could take off," a source who knew the arrangement said.

The money was meant to redraw the region's map and lock in normalization with Israel. Roughly $1 billion of it was deposited in Israel's Central Bank for Kushner, with Netanyahu requiring dual-key approval on any transfers.

The two royals initially discussed more than $10 billion for a shared slush fund. That narrowed to roughly $2 billion deposited into accounts Kushner could access, including roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank under a UAE charity used as cover for covert operations.

The reveal comes as Kushner is deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, where Iran has accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation, using insider knowledge of the talks to trade oil futures, energy stocks, and prediction markets.

[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: A judge orders Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading consumers about their data privacy. https://t.co/RrqXBeS728

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@wereontheditch @grok how many times has this happened since October 2023 and what fines have the Irish government imposed on these air carriers?

[Marijuana @marijuanacomau]

THC-rich marijuana extracts triggered programmed cell death in leukemia cells while activating biological signals associated with immune recognition of cancer, according to new research accepted for publication in Frontiers in Immunology. #HomeGrowAmnesty https://t.co/jEFhF2X4PF

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@coe @grok what Council of Europe directors were named in the Epstein files and have they been prosecuted?

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

If Ireland wants to resolve drug intimidation they must adopt strict regulation & safe access. Anything less will fail to achieve the intended consequences to reduce harm/ overdoses, protect labour rights, safety, eliminate drug cartels that influence policy & launder money.

[kodomonster @kodomonster]

Will people buying drugs for their night out this weekend think about the English family?

The war on drugs is a total failure

People aren’t going to stop buying. It needs to be regulated. Prohibition of coke/weed has failed @fiannafailparty @FineGael @cardagh @MichealMartinTD

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@CormacJOKeeffe 44-years since the Concerned Parents Against Drugs movement.

Violence and intimidation is a consequence of prohibition and lack of proper regulation.

[Ben @bugscotti]

i wonder how many more people have to die before our government finally listen to the 6 reports they’ve received and regulates the illicit drugs market to take it away from criminal control?

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇪🇺 Private chats and emails reported via #ChatControl 1.0 are ending up in #Palantir systems - scandalous!
This includes direct messages on Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, as well as emails via Gmail.
Details:
https://t.co/SxEq05UIeB
#StopScanningMe

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@Independent_ie Ireland hasn't removed criminality for personal drug possession and will do nothing to prevent further criminal cartels from arson attacks on people who use drugs and their families.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Germany puts Ukrainian on trial accused of blowing up Nord Stream pipelines https://t.co/UubTvOQjLf

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@CormacJOKeeffe @irishexaminer Meanwhile in Canada... https://t.co/dqTKAq0kmf

[Marijuana @marijuanacomau]

In Canada's B.C, where adult use and homegrown cannabis are legal, the cannabis sector contributed $1.7 billion to BC’s GDP in 2024, supported approximately 5,300 jobs, and generated about $190 million in annual tax revenues. Contrast to South Australia..
https://t.co/4VxVO5ijzi

[Grok @grok]

Partly yes: Parliament rejects the Irish proposal for cutting defence/security funds (e.g. military mobility by 14%, competitiveness/defence by ~13%) versus the Commission's plan, plus underfunding agriculture/cohesion and overall size. They want higher totals matching commitments.

Extra defence money would mainly flow to European firms like Thales, Leonardo, Airbus, Rheinmetall and Saab via instruments succeeding the European Defence Fund for R&D and production.

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@EltonGaule @irishexaminer That's a shame particularly when those same jurisdictions each have commercial cannabis markets that seem to exclude the very people that faced wrongful prosecution. Case in point how the wrong is not made right by way of commercialising cannabis without expunging and inclusion

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@SecretS0ffender @irishexaminer I think most people would agree with your last point

[TRACDuk @ukTRACD]

Just look at Canada …. Since legalising this plant for adult use in 2018, it’s become one of the country’s biggest cash crops. Farm receipts went from $94.8 million in 2016 to over $3 billion in 2025. It’s now competing with soybeans and corn, bringing in more than durum wheat, barley, lentils and tobacco. Quite a change for a plant that once accounted for less than 1% of total farm receipts.

https://t.co/41WDyvGMp0

[Graham de Barra @GramsdB]

@grok @SMuresan @Europarl_EN @EUCouncil What connections do these corporations have with human rights abuses in foreign conflicts such as occupied Gaza? Do they support Israel and other aggressors or are they purely defending EU member states with their budgets?