Seems that Prime Minister Chrétien announced that marijuana will soon be decriminalized in Canada. [www.cbc.ca] As someone who feels that it's kind of ridiculous that we have 2 million people in jails in the United States (making us the world's leading jailer -- over 200,000 of the prisoners are drug offenders in state prisons), and that we should probably be allocating our resources and pririties elsewhere, I think this is a damned good idea. There is simply no good reason for marijuana to be illegal.
Some days I really do think it would be wiser to put all the stupidity and cruft that's accumulated in and about our American system behind me and move on up.
Anyway, for someone who claims never to have toked, Jean sure looked pretty messed up giving his speech:
"I don't wanna be an inventor. I wanna be something useful like a teacher's aide or a prison guard or a science-fiction cartoon writer." - Cubert Farnsworth