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Tuesday, 14 November 2006

Up In Smoke

Filed under: Great White North |

“O Can-ni-bus…
Our home-grown native plaaaaant!”

The origin of this parody for the Canadian National Anthem stems back to the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, when Canadian snowboarder Ross Rebagliati won a Gold Medal and then tested positive for marijuana use and was subsequently disqualified. He eventually got the Gold Medal back, eh.
Anyway, little did I know I’d be using this parody time and time again. This time for two Canadian university professors who have won the right to toke it up in a private room so they can continue to function at their jobs. What, as if university profs everywhere don’t use the stuff on an ongoing basis, eh.
Way down at the bottom of this story is this paragraph:

The government grows the drug in an abandoned salt mine in Flin Flon, Manitoba, and sells it to authorized users at C$5 ($4.40) a gram.

Now I ask you, is my parody appropriate or not, eh.

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