Who me?
Tobacco might not be a bad idea, but no alchohol here. Muslims frown on drinking. Your candy idea has lots of merit, though. Of course, any foodstuffs or meds get confiscated for stock or redistribution.
In an envrionment where one needs the shelter of a refuge camp, I have to think that forming your own marauding group would be better. Better to be on the offensive than the defensive, at least that's the way all the movies work out. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)