Marc Emery's extradition.

[kush fairy]

Marc Emery's Sentence Reeks of Injustice and Mocks our Sovereignty


After two decades as Canada's Prince of Pot, Marc Emery has surrender himself to the B.C. Supreme Court and become the country's first Marijuana Martyr.

Emery will begin serving what could be as long as five years behind bars as Uncle Sam's prisoner for a crime that in Canada would have earned him at most a month in the local hoosegow.

It is a legal tragedy that in my opinion marks the capitulation of our sovereignty and underscores the hypocrisy around cannabis.

Emery hasn't even visited America but he was arrested in July 2005 at the request of a Republican administration that abhorred his politics.

He is being handed over to a foreign government for an activity we are loath to prosecute because we don't think selling seeds is a major problem.

There are at least a score of seed-sellers downtown and many, many more such retail outlets across the country.

In the days ahead, once the federal justice minister signs the extradition papers, Emery will be frog-marched south to Seattle where his plea bargain will be rubber-stamped and he will be sent to a U.S. penitentiary.

For comparison, consider that the B.C. Court of Appeal last year said a one-month jail sentence plus probation was appropriate punishment for drug and money-laundering offences of this ilk.

The last time Emery was convicted in Canada of selling pot seeds, back in 1998, he was given a $2,000 fine.

In July, his co-accused Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams were given two years probation for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.

They were indicted along with Emery for their role in what the authorities described as a $3-million-a-year business.

Rainey, 38, worked for Emery from 1998 to 2005, helping him operate the B.C. Marijuana Party and his mail-order business.

The 54-year-old Williams took phone orders.

Emery flouted the law for more than a decade and every year he sent his seed catalogue to politicians of every stripe. He ran in federal, provincial and civic elections promoting his pro-cannabis platform.

He championed legal marijuana at parliamentary hearings, on national television, at celebrity conferences, in his own magazine, Cannabis Culture, and on his own Internet channel, Pot TV.

Health Canada even recommended medical marijuana patients buy their seeds from his company.

From 1998 until his arrest, Emery even paid provincial and federal taxes as a "marijuana seed vendor" totalling nearly $600,000.

He was targeted because of his success, targeted as surely as pot comic Tommy Chong — who spent nearly a year in U.S. jail because his son ran a company selling glass pipes.

Emery challenged a law he disagrees with using exactly the non-violent, democratic processes we urge our children to embrace and of which we are so proud.

"The same seeds I sold are being sold right in America," Emery complained. "The people in California are doing it the same way I did so there's a terrible hypocrisy at work here."

He's right.

Emery recently wrapped up a 30-city "farewell tour" of speaking engagements across Canada.

And, he's banking on the transfer agreement that allows Canadians convicted and jailed in America to serve their time here and take advantage of our very liberal early-release laws.

If that happened, he could be out within a few years. But Ottawa has regularly rejected drug offenders for the program and I doubt Emery will find any sympathy.

I suspect he's likely to moulder in a violent, overcrowded U.S. jail for probably his full five-year sentence.

"I'm going to do more time than many violent, repeat offenders," he noted.

"There isn't a single victim in my case, no one who can stand up and say, 'I was hurt by Marc Emery.' No one."

He's right again.

Emery is facing more jail time than corporate criminals who defraud widows and orphans and longer incarceration than violent offenders who leave their victims dead or in wheelchairs.

Whatever else you may think of him — and I know he rankles many — what is happening to him today mocks our independence and our ideal of justice.

For Marc's address in jail to write him a uplifting message PM me!

[TexRx]

I don't get why there are so many people here in the U.S. that get mad and angry when Emery is talked about.

He's a pot activist and you smoke pot. Don't you see the connection?!??

I hope Marc Emery gets 2.1/2  yrs off for good behavior. I bet he'll be an exemplary prisoner, too..................

 

And.............,  I don't write letters to prisoners I've never met, but I'd tell him pretty much the same thing.

 

[DevilDawg]

nah tex-its because he sold seeds, never set foot in america-until they extradited him here.Theres no reason for him to be in our jail system, especially not for  5 years.If his own country wont punish him, we shouldnt stick our damn noses in it and punish him..

[TexRx]

He sold seeds and gave most of the money to cannabis activist groups that work here in America and also to groups that work in other countries.

The reason he is in the U.S. prison system is because this was part of G.W. Bush's drug-war agenda.

It's too late he's already punished for it.  I hope he gets out way too early for good behavior.

 

[hope]

really do we as a nation don't see that everything is wrong anyone over the age of 21 should be able to relive stress the way they think is best we now have people not a a USA citizen we the tax people have to pay for again but heres a number to call for it to be legal so call and vote 973 409 3274 obama said with 1 million he would consider it so if you really want this to stop call not a joke

[Rider]

The real reason Marc got jail time is due to his razzing John White the acting American drug czar. John came to Vancover and Marc bought tickets then proceded to heckle him all night long along with Micheal and mike. Hence why there are still lots of seed companies in Canada with no action against any of them.

Authorties have abused their power for personal reasons this is just another example.

BTW i consider the prohibition of drug use a polital policy therefor Marc is a political prisoner along with any other nonviolent drug offender.

[TexRx]

Chalk ` Mark Emery up as just another non-violent drug offender serving 5 yrs in the U.S. of A. Best of luck with that, eh............

 

[DevilDawg]

The real reason Marc got jail time is due to his razzing John White the acting American drug czar. John came to Vancover and Marc bought tickets then proceded to heckle him all night long along with Micheal and mike. Hence why there are still lots of seed companies in Canada with no action against any of them.
Authorties have abused their power for personal reasons this is just another example.
BTW i consider the prohibition of drug use a polital policy therefor Marc is a political prisoner along with any other nonviolent drug offender.

of course!-didnt anyone read what i posted sent to me by his wife, jodie???

[kush fairy]

I have begun working closley with Jodie, and Let me say this. Marc Emery is NOT the U.S.'s problem. He is a canadian born citizen. Never left the country. The only reason the united states came in and did what they did is because they could. Marc payed the canadian government taxes for all seed sales. He also informed them of the business.  My name is The Kush Fairy. You all will start to see pictures, and hear more from me. I am a confident woman, who will do anything to get my voice heard. You will understand more about my plans as time goes on. Thank you for starting this conversation, and bringing Marc's voice threw the cement walls. He would love to accept letters from anyone.  Spread the word!  www.noextradition.net www.freemarc.ca!


Thanks guys!


Kush*

[TexRx]

Thank you for starting this conversation, and bringing Marc's voice threw the cement walls. He would love to accept letters from anyone. 

I sent Marc a note a few days ago!
I assume he'll get it.

 

[TexRx]

I sent a 2nd,  near duplicate note. You never know in the USA these days.

 

[royalphoenix]

George Bush spent five years in the bottom of a whiskey bottle. What do you expect from a moron

[DevilDawg]

-royal-   have you been that high the past 9 months or so? We have a new president man..names Obama, kinda tan looking, little socialist...may have seen him on tv..

[TexRx]

George Bush spent five years in the bottom of a whiskey bottle. What do you expect from a moron

way off topic but i hear what you're sayin`........