Source: Calgary Sun (Canada) Contact: http://www.canoe.ca/CalgarySun/ Pubdate: July 17, 1998 Author: Sean Durkan -- Ottawa Bureau POT-WORSHIPPING VICAR WANTS SHOT AT TORY JOB OTTAWA -- Reporters called it "Cheech and Chong go to Ottawa." In one of the most bizarre silly season stories, Reverend Brother Michael Baldasaro, a self-styled vicar of a pot-worshipping "church," prepared to announce his Tory leadership candidacy on Parliament Hill yesterday by smoking a joint. He then appeared in the media room beneath the House of Commons with his manager and fellow-"reverend brother" and pot-smoker Walter A. Tucker, to make his pitch. Full-bearded, dressed in hemp shorts, hats and T-shirts, they vowed to decriminalize marijuana and pay down the federal debt with a dope tax if Baldasaro becomes prime minister. Baldasaro's "church" is an abandoned foundry in Cambridge, Ont., where he and Tucker share a trailer. He said he has smoked marijuana since he was 21. Copyright (c) 1998, Canoe Limited Partnership. - --- Checked-by: Mike Gogulski