Pubdate: Sat, 29 Nov 2003
Source: Globe and Mail (Canada)
Copyright: 2003, The Globe and Mail Company
Contact:  http://www.globeandmail.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/168
Author: John Allemang

POETIC JUSTICE

Party Politics

"A wonderful substance" -- New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton touts 
marijuana during a recent discussion of legalization on website Pot-TV.

Religion is the people's drug,

Or so said Marx. But now we shrug

Our heads, ignoring boasts that God

Can make the docile masses nod.

Who needs the opiate of prayer

To free blue-collar lives from care,

And who wants help from Rome's stern pope,

When we can score Jack Layton's dope?

Das Kapital is out of date.

For workers who feel crushed by fate,

The NDP knows better highs

To soothe our sense of compromise,

And not just mass-made Ex or Blue --

When he talks up the joys of boo,

And says the law has lost its grip,

Jack Layton makes his party hip.

Forget the NDP of old,

When whiffs of Acapulco Gold

Would damn us all as dilettantes

Too stoned to know the workers' wants.

It's not what Tommy Douglas taught,

But, hey, young voters like their pot,

So workers of the world unite:

Smoke up, and lose the will to fight.
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