don't smoke the government dope

Note: I haven't heard this about the American government weed, which is admittedly in short supply - I don't even know if it's available anymore.

The Canadian government has permitted roughly 600 of their citizens to purchase government-grown cannabis for medical purposes. According to the news story I read, they are "the first country in the world to do so," though I know for a fact that the USA did have such a program for glaucoma patients at one time.

According to the poor sods who are participating in the Canadian program, what they are getting is "ground up stems, twigs and seeds, and not fit for human consumption." That's too bad, especially considering that British Columbia (a Canadian Province, for the geographically challenged) is well known for producing some very fine bud.

Meanwhile, our own Tommy Chong has been sentenced to jail time for selling some really attractive smoking accessories online. I never bought any myself (I gave up the weed a few years ago, when I gave up everything else that causes a buzz), but I did visit his website after John Asscrack publicized it, but before he confiscated it. Very attractive stuff. Almost too pretty to gunk up with resin. The kind of stuff you'd fill your knick-knack shelves with. Absolutely gorgeous. I bet a lot of those knick-knacks are decorating a lot of Feds' shelves these days, and not just because they're evidence.

You know, Tommy Chong's defense sounded a bit lame - if the media got it right, of course. I expect that it was a bit more coherent than the conservative media portrayed it. Supposedly he told the judge that he had traded his reefer habit for salsa dancing, stating that salsa dancing was "awesome." Of course, that's the American media ... a more reasonable article (sans Cheech & Chong era photo) on the subject is available here.