Poppies as legitimate industry?

http://www.herald.ns.ca/Opinion/537620.html

This seems like a good idea to me. Africa gets cheap painkillers, the pharmaceutical companies make a few bucks, and Afghanistan gets an economy that isn't built on creating misery. It's a win-win situation.

Unless, of course, you happen to be Bush & co., for whom poppies are Teh Evil because you can get street drugs from them, and we're in the middle of a War on Drugs, right?

Thanks to siobhan63 for the link.

Handling Halloween

How does your family handle Halloween?

Specifically - what do you do about the candy? Do you pool it for family use? Dole it out a few pieces at a time? Let kids keep it in their rooms, to be eaten at their discretion? Let kids decide when to eat it, and accept the consequences themselves, or let them decide with some limits - for instance, no candy before lunchtime? Do you allow kids to have separate stashes of candy that their siblings aren't allowed to have, and if so, how do you handle accusations of theft?

This isn't a big issue for us yet - we're still at the dole-it-out stage, and she doesn't notice if I eat some of her candy. :) But it will start to become an issue, and I want to be prepared when it does.