The funny part isn't that they don't admit it, it's that they did admit it a few years back and now refuse to say anything about it. That's their dirty little secret. There was a program a while back where they said it had medicinal value and actually grew it and gave it to patients. In fact, I believe there are some surviving people that were a part of this program still around and still get marijuana legally from the government.

The Canadian dollar is not on a downward spirial, in fact, our economy is still growing strong. I know you guys don't get our media, but it's actually a very talked about thing right now. Our dollar is rising, our markets are strong, and we are just waiting for whatever is going to happen in the US, however, most economists predict (Government and independent, on all sides...) that we have a strong enough economy to withstand the slowing US economy. Most currencies are on the rise (The Euro, Pound, etc), but Canada has gained the highest percent over the past few weeks.

A lot of the problems our economy is facing right now is actually due to our "Free Trade" with the US, and Mr. Stephen "Bush's Bitch" Harper's poor leadership. However, your "FDA" just opened the boarder again to beef import, so our farmers will see a lot of benefit from that, and rightly so. (After that 1 isolated mad-cow case in Alberta... Seriously, just 1... And it was the first one in a long time) They closed down the boarder for quite a number of years, which caused some real hard times for the beef industry.

Plus, with the upcoming Olympics and our high dollar, we should be fine for the next few years atleast. Once you get that monkey out of power (Although, Clinton or Obama will probably replace him, and neither of them have a fucking clue), hopefully the US economy will start to rebound and with that, so will the Canadian economy. But in short, we're doing good up here... Even with our "evil Socialist healthcare"

Tell me what is inherently more valuable about gold as opposed to the American dollar. Would the rest of the civilized world rather have a bank account with $100,000 USD in it or a hunk of gold in their basement? You're implying the price of gold hasn't changed in the years since we've been off the gold standard. The dollar is plenty stable and switching to gold-backed currency is only going to limit our options and strangle our power in a global economy. What happens if someone finds a huge gold-mine in another country, why should our dollar suffer? And how do we make that transition without collapsing our domestic economy right now? What other first-world countries are using gold-backed currency successfully right now? If a state makes something illegal you can move out of the state? Yea that sounds like where I want to live. Where in my hometown I can do as I wish but when I travel for business my rights and status can change every time I land in an airport. It would be almost like I was traveling country to country, right? You say now we have to leave the country if we disagree, I say what's the difference if all of your freedoms appear and disappear from state to state? Saying that there were racist statements published in his official newsletter is not unfair. It is true. I never said he actually wrote them, but to pretend he isn't accountable for what is printed there is laughable. That staff is made up of the people he chose to operate it and the people he chooses to surround himself with are telling. from http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/02/ron_paul/index1.html "This is not the first time Paul has veered into potentially insensitive territory. In 1992, a copy of his newsletter, the Ron Paul Survival Report, criticized the judicial system in Washington, D.C., before adding, "I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." Under a section headlined "Terrorist Update," the following sentence ran, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be." I don't fear gay marriage, Ron Paul does. Ron Paul personally doesn't think gays should get married and whether that effects his political leanings or not, Ron Paul supports a position where you could get married in California but if you're hospitalized or filing taxes in Texas they would be under no obligation to honor that marriage. That's ridiculous. You're confusing the possibility of more freedom with actual freedom. Just as it opens doors for states to be more progressive, it also opens doors for them to be much more conservative and discriminatory. I do not fear abortion, Ron Paul does. He sees it as an act of aggression that all Libertarians should oppose politically because a fetus is a human being and has rights (which is basically a religious belief effecting his politics). He also thinks the radical left is waging a war on Christmas and that their goal is to "transform America into a completely secular nation," which if I understand the Constitution is what we were supposed to be in the first place. Like I said, I respect Ron Paul for what he does to the political forum in general and for what he brings to the table with his point of view. He's an intelligent guy and he does stick to his guns. Unfortunately his view of a perfect America does not appeal to me at all and I feel like idealogical basis of many of his ideas that I do like (like releasing drug offenders) undermines the good that they would do.