Washington State police forces have seized enough marijuana plants in 2005 to place cannabis as the state’s #8 agricultural product. Am I living on the wrong side of the country or what? [New Jersey, the “Garden State”, is developing its open spaces so fast into housing developments and crippling sprawl that eventually our agricultural commodities will consist of the greens buyable in places like 7-Eleven and Wawa.] To a degenerate like me that equates a toke off of a joint with a sip from a beer, that certainly seems to be the case. Instead of buying the over-priced junk that’s available from local sources, maybe I ought to be heading west to set up my own private operation. After all, the reduction in National Guard forces for the war in Iraq [still not part of our nation] has left a lot of our home turf under-defended at the moment. What better time than when priorities have been shifted from one worthless war to another? In fact, given the recent “revelations” about drug money and sponsoring terrorism, growing my own fields of ganja could be the most patriotic, American thing that I could think of to do my part in the war on terror.