After running in three federal elections as the Ottawa Center candidate for the Marijuana Party John Akpata has learned that you can connect cannabis to almost anything - the failing economy, mistrust in the government, the massive synthetic pharmaceutical industry, cancer, dying with dignity, common sense, freedom of speach, the oil industry, lumber, pulp and paper, and the list goes on and on. But if you're worried about being shrugged off as obsessive, well its probably best for a public career to pick a few key issues and focus on those.