These are the addresses for petitioning the agency responsible for the appeal of the pot firing case: Alberta Human Rights and citizenship commission, 800 Standard Life center, 10405 Jasper Avenue,

The story appeared in the same issue of The Vancouver Province, newspaper as did the crack pipe story. It appeared on page A24, which is about as buried as a story can be. In 2002, one John Chiasson (I think I did time with this guy), was fired from his job at the Alberta tar sands project for the crime of being exposed to pot smoke sometime in the past 45 days.

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority announced today that they would begin handing out mouth pieces for crack pipes in an effort to prevent the spread of blood borne diseases, mainly Hep-C. Every-where I went today, people were bitching and whining about the waste of taxpayers' money.

You can't make this stuff up. Unfortunately, you don't have to because the drug war brings to life new and unfathomable absurdities each and every day:

Customs officials on the other side of the Pond are on the lookout for curvy drug mules after customs officers arrested a woman for attempting to smuggle £50,000 worth of cocaine in concealed pouches built into her bra. Criminals are now being said to favor "tall, flat-chested women who don't arouse suspicion when they have fuller figures." [Radar]

So now we can add both flat and full-chested women to the drug courier profile. We shall search women's underwear high and low because Victoria's got a new secret now and we don't want those fun bags getting into the hands of children.