Here's a bit of food for thought for all Canadians.   
      
   Canadian federal and provincial governments have and are making considerable   
   efforts to increase trade with China. In China, most marijuana infractions   
   carry the death penalty. Every year on the UN Anti-Drug Day between 20 and 30   
   people in China, who    
   have marijuana convictions, are executed.    
      
   If Canada was to legalize marijuana from Coast to Coast, it's possible that   
   China would feel offended and say that they were not going to help Canadians   
   recycle drug money by buying Canadian products. There are alternate suppliers   
   for what Canada sells    
   China.   
      
   Take wheat as an example. Once the Canadian parries were the bread basket of   
   the world. Then Brazil came online as a wheat producer. Canada lost many of   
   its markets for wheat to Brazil. A consequence was that prairie farmers had to   
   switch to: Canola,    
   Rape, Sun Flower, etc. With the dwindling importance of wheat, the federal   
   government dismantled the Wheat Marketing Board. WMB shipments were   
   responsible for 95% of traffic through the Port of Churchill Manitoba.   
      
   With the demise of the WMB, American grain buyers became more active in the   
   Canadian market. In order to keep peace with US unions, the grain buyers   
   agreed to ship through the Port of Duluth Minnesota rather than Churchill. As   
   a result, the latter is    
   dying.   
      
   JL - 01-11-2015   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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