Woot Back in Action

Finally getting things together for the new school year. Recovered after working the summer treeplanting in Thunder Bay, Ontario and in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta. Topped it all off with some urban restoration in Brampton. Getting back into the whole politics gong show. I just read for example that the Cons are doing some cutting in the spending department. And to my delight John Baird's example of wasteful spending was a 4 million dollars gift to research medicinal marijuana.

Personally, I think that a great move- why the hell should Canadian taxpayers spend 4 mil so we can find out something we already know. The Courts have repeatedly demanded that Health Canada start providing medicinal marijuana because people need it. Health Canada responded with stonewalling and putting together a terrible program that hardly a 1000 people joined. Come on now, California has 100,000 people in their program. Many American States have a much better program then any jurisdiction in Canada.

But personally I think medicinal marijuana is bad compromise because I like many Canadians believe that every person in Canada should have the right to smoke marijuana without the fear of persecution.

But don’t stop at a 4 million dollar cut Baird, how about you stop persecuting marijuana smokers and you'll save 400 million dollars at the minimum. Possibly you'll get 1.5 billion dollars back. And if you regulate and tax this 7 billion dollar industry you could net a cool 2 billion dollars. (Though mind you I would prefer if people could just grow their own without it being taxed to death.) But given that the Cons are big government type people, they would love to get their hands on that tax base- too bad their brains are fried with half century old reefer madness propaganda.