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Just imagine

Lately, as we have been cross country skiing around Ministikwan Lake, we have had the pleasure of watching our military perform tactical manoeuvres with fighter jets as they train for combat readiness. We also see the slow approach of the massive surveillance planes (the ones which fly around the world for weeks on end without touching down Just imagine as they gather intelligence) flying low as they are heading to touch down at the Cold Lake Air Force Base, perhaps to refuel or for maintenance. Normally one would not really give this activity a second thought, but recently while I was downtown Calgary and at a trade show in Michigan, I was solicited for the purchase of black Afghani hash, said to have the official seal and all.
This got me thinking that if Afghani Hash is the dominate product on the market in both Canada and the United States and we are both part United Nations Military Mission in the Middle East and there really is little or no commercial trade taking place with the West during these turbulent times. This leaves one to speculate as to the method in which such products make there way into North America.
If the military is the network and the purveyors it is quite likely being purchased from the Taliban, which if I am not mistaken would mean we are providing the means for these guerrillas to continue fighting against us, seems a little warped that it may be our money paying for our service men to come home in a box.
On a brighter note, it appears that in Maui, Hawaii there is a great concern that if they stop growing sugar cane the sweeping green landscape will not be the same, it has been suggested that the cane fi elds be replaced with the production of Maui Gold (Maui Wow-eee) medicinal marijuana. Thereby allowing the government to levy tax. I am sure that would also make all those flower children living in the back country very happy.
With that Bill Clinton would not have to worry that he smoked but didn’t inhale and our Olympian Ross Rebagliati inhaled but didn’t smoke as for Mr. Harper didn’t he just experiment? When you think about it, the First Nation Communities have casinos, why wouldn’t they become producers and supply the Federal and Provincial Governments with Canadian product seems like a natural progression and would get our governments out from under their reluctance to legalize the use of marijuana in Canada.
Imagine all this by watching fighter jets tear up the sky over Ministikwan Lake.

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