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Who does Allan Rock think he's fooling? He has decided to allow for medical testing for cannibis for the first time since it was prohibited in the thirties. Why has he done a flip-flop in his views since he was Justice Minister? Could it be that he is hedging his bets against the day that he runs for P.M.? After all, Billy Pud is the president of the most powerful country in the world and if he can admit to smoking the stuff and be president, old Al can go one better, and make it available for all pain sufferers, thereby assuring the nod for P.M.

If this is the case, it would probably be the election after next, to allow everyone the chance to forget the gun laws that he enacted as Justice Minister. He's a clever fellow, I'll give him that. We as a society are told what to think by the media, and recently we have been assured by these same media, that weed is not such a bad thing. That a large percentage of adults actually use the stuff and that it is really not that bad as far as mind altering chemicals go. This is the same media that has been telling us for years that this is the "devils tool". But now the spin is pro-pot, so everyone has to jump on the bandwagon.

In the last two years, the public opinion on the cannibis laws have gone from fear of "Dope smoking hooligans" to full acceptance of pot as a part of life. People have realized that the war on drugs is a lost cause, and that maybe we should legalize the stuff and tax it, using the revenues to treat the abusers of this and other addictive substances.

Allan Rock, the political dynamo that he is, sees this as a way to assure his place in Canadian politics, and in popular culture. Like Gore, (Not Dole, who sells erection creams on late night T.V.) declaring that he was the "grandfather of the internet", Rock is going to announce that the only reason that sick people can get their medicine is because of him. And most people will take him at his word, because the T.V. never lies.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm all for de-criminalization of Cannibis, but how much are they going to spend on the study and to buy the weed from the US? Everyone knows that the best shmag comes from Canada, so why not buy Canadian? Besides, they don't need to do a big fancy study on the effects of Cannibis as an analgesic, all they have to do is have a blast the next time they have a sore back, or are having trouble eating, and the wonderous effects of the pode will be obvious.

I'm not going to get into the good or bad points of Cannibis, but rest assured that in the next few years, you and I will be told what to think about it. And as good citizens of the media, we will lick up anything that they tell us, and will come to believe it as fact.

I for one wouldn't vote for Rock as Dogcatcher. Weed, or no weed.

-Skuncle