What will Prime Minister Chretien do after retirement? Smoke reefer!

Winnipeg — It's an unlikely retirement scenario for Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: he's at his lakeside cottage, sipping tea with his wife Aline — and smoking a big fat joint.

The 69-year-old prime minister has never smoked marijuana, he says, but he joked in an interview this week he might be willing to give it a try once it's decriminalized.

Mr. Chrétien made the joke in an Ottawa interview with the Winnipeg Free Press published in Friday's paper.

Mr. Chrétien was asked how it felt to have bills for decriminalizing marijuana and legalizing same-sex marriages as the exclamation points to his lengthy political career.

“I don't know what is marijuana,” Mr. Chrétien replied.

“Perhaps I will try it when it will no longer be criminal. I will have my money for my fine and a joint in the other hand.”

I can just picture him starring in a remake of Easy Rider.