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Marc Emery now in jail awaiting extradition to U.S
9/29/09 | The Vancouver Sun | Ian Mulgrew.



Marc Emery comforts wife Jody during an emotional farewell outside the Law Courts on Monday.
Canada's self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot" was escorted out of B.C. Supreme Court and into jail Monday to
await extradition to the U.S., where he is to serve up to five years in prison for shipping marijuana seeds across the border.

Photograph by: Ian Smith.

VANCOUVER — Canada's self-proclaimed "Prince of Pot" was escorted out of B.C. Supreme Court and into jail Monday to await extradition to the U.S., where he is to serve up to five years in prison for shipping marijuana seeds across the border.

Marc Emery, 51, was indicted in 2005 along with two associates on drug and money-laundering charges stemming from a lucrative mail-order pot-seed business run out of Emery's Vancouver book and paraphernalia shop, which also doubled as B.C.'s Marijuana Party headquarters.

Two charges Emery faced — conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering — were dropped in exchange for his guilty plea on the charge of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.

He has agreed to a five-year imprisonment plea bargain in connection with his $3-million a year marijuana seed catalogue business, where most of his customers were American.

Canadian authorities drew criticism for helping the U.S. nab Emery because he openly participated in an operation that drew little heat in Canada.

Emery was convicted in Canada of selling pot seeds in 1998 and given a $2,000 fine.

Emery's two associates, Michelle Rainey, 38, and Gregory Williams, 54, were recently sentenced in the U.S. to two years probation for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana as a result of a plea deal.

As Emery left the tiny courtroom, his wife Jody wept in the public gallery while a crowd of the cannabis crusader's followers chanted: "Free Marc Emery!"


As he was led away, he yelled:

"I love you Jody Emery. Plant the seeds
of Freedom; Overgrow the Government!"


Emery will be held for 30 days to give him time to appeal and then, once the federal justice minister has signed the removal order, Emery will be handed over to the U.S.

Now dubbed the country's first "marijuana martyr," Emery recently wrapped up a 30-city "farewell tour" across Canada.

He is also hoping a transfer agreement allowing Canadians convicted and jailed in the U.S. to serve their time back home will play in his favour.

"The same seeds I sold are being sold right in America . . . There's a terrible hypocrisy at work here," said Emery. "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."

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Editors Note : There are videos about this
including his last few moments as a Free man
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dirtbomb

I was hoping that if he were extradited, that he would simply serve trial, be acquitted and be able to fly home.
So much for any 'justice' in our system.

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troublemaker_42

He plead guilty rather than going to trial. You don't plead guilty, get extridited, then go to trial If he truely thought he was innocent, he could have fought the charges. He knew he was guilty and that a plea bargin would be his best option at this point. I have little sympathy for anyone who goes on TV and brags about how they are violating the law, then acts suprised when he's held accountable for his actions. The difference between emery and the vast majority of seedbanks? They don't go out of there way to draw attention to themselves. They know they are involved in something of questionable legality (and straight up criminal activity if selling/shipping to the US) so they DO NOT go on TV or make public appearences where they brag about how they are above the law. Emery didn't go to jail for selling seeds. He went to jail for being an unrepetant attention whore who wasn't smart enough to lay low rather than openly advertise his criminal activity. While I don't AGREE with the law, I DO recognize it, and know what the coinsequences are for violating it. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. The law is clear...just because he operated safely under Canada's laws doesn't mean he was free to ship seeds to the US. Under the law, sending seeds to US residents is no different than if he was actually sending drugs through the mail to them. While I realize this is a sill;y example, its valid under the law: If Pablo Escobar was sending thousands of grams of coke to US residents, na dopenly bragging about it, do you really think the US would choose to look the other way? In the eyes of the law, seeds are little different than cocaine...they are both illegal substances, that, if mailed to the US, violates federal laws. Em,ery knew this, and ignored it for the sake of money, really. I break the law, but I'm willing to face the consequences if caught. Emery somehow thought he could break the law without ever being accountable for it. That, obviously, isn't trrue.

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MrIMStoned

^^You act as if Marc Emery is a crybaby or that he didn't expect to go to prison. He's not whining that he has to go to prison. He has said all along that his goals are to get arrested to challenge laws. Emery has been using civil disobedience for a long time now. Not just for marijuana legalization but any injustice that he finds.

He didn't start the business for money either. All the money his business made is accounted for and donated to marijuana legalization efforts. His business even paid the taxes.

The only reason he took a deal is because he didn't want his friends to have their lives ruined. Otherwise I'm sure he would have loved his day in court. And what is wrong with breaking an un-just law? Should Rosa Parks have just sat where she was told? I only wish we all had the courage to stand up for what we believe in. Maybe then people would start to care.

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troublemaker_42

Where did I say thaty breaking an unjust law was WRONG? I said no such thing, and openly admitting to violating the law on a daily basis. I did say breaking the law was...well...umm....illegal ( ) and that Emery was a fool if he thought the US would choose to simply ignore his taunts. When you openly break the law, you should expect to be punished for it. If you aren't willing to pay the prioce for your actions, maybe you should think through your actions a little bit more throughly. He wanted the attention, to make himself a some sort of self-stled martyr. He simply got everything he asked for, and I have a hard time sympathizing with someone who basically signed their own arrest warrant. AS for him not being a crybaby, as of late he is blaming pretty much everyonew involed with the legalization effort for his predictament, saying that people didn't work hard enough to ensure his freedom. He liked to be arrested,( by Canadian officals for Canadian crimes), because it served his attention whore side well. He got his name out there, without it being any sort of major inconvience to him or his buisiness. However, now that he's faced with REAL punishment, he's not nearly so eager to take all the credit or blame for his situation The law may be wrong, but that still shouldn't give anyone the expectation of being able to break it without punishment. If you break the law, theres consequences, whether you personally agree with the law or not. I only break the law to a degree that I'm willing to face the consequences for. Emery would have been smart to follow similiar advice. He's not nearly as excited about getting arrested by US officals as he previously was when arrested by those in Canada.


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Theres a video in this thread where Emery's elistist attitude comes plainly visbale. The first line of the video, he actually has enough nerve to blame his "supporters" for his incarceration, saying they didn't do enough to get the indictment dropped against him. If he was so eager to be arrested, why would he want the indictment dropped? Oh yeah...like everyone else who gets busted....he doesn't wanna go to jail. Too bad, so sad, better luck next time. It takes some balls to blame everyone else in the legalization movment for your fuck-ups and resulting incarceration. The responsibility for his situation rests on HIS shoulders, not mine. What a douchebag, IMO. He's an egomananiac, and I have very little patience for somone who is so damn full of themselves. I'm suprised he hasn't claimed credit for the CREATION of marijuana. He takes credit for everything and anything else involving legalization around the world, and blames everyone else involved in the movment for his incarceration and current situation. So much for taking responsibility for his actions....I jst wasted 11 minutes of my life listening to him do anything and everything BUT take responsibility. Emery finally got what he asked for, so why is it he seems so upset he got what he did everything in his power to get?

Long story short- We aren't to blame for Marc going to jail. To be clear, its not the fact his supporters didn't do enough to ensure his freedom, its the fact he was indicted for committing a crime he very openly bragged about breaking whenever givne an audience to do so. Its not my fault or your fault he is gfoing to prison. Its Marc Emery's fault, no one elses.

MrIMStoned

Except that he is taking the credit and the blame. He's facing the consequences of his actions. He's going to prison, of course he's not going to be happy about it. The blame does rest on us as a society. He shouldn't have to go to prison. It is wrong to send him to prison for what he did. Just as it would be wrong to send anyone to prison for marijuana possession or distribution.

He's blaming society as a whole. Which is true. He still is taking responsibility by pleading guilty and taking the rap for his friends.
We are to blame. Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

castklearr

Marc 's website does't have retards like this on it!

Trouble-maker you have no fuvking clue.....MORON!

Apparently you have never dealt with AMERICAN PIGS!

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troublemaker_42

I won't justify your comments with a response...you've said plenty already...I don't need to say a word

Bodhi1976

How could he possibly have been acquitted? He admitted and even bragged about committing exactly the crimes of which he was being accused. It is illegal to sell cannabis seeds in the US and Emery proudly proclaimed that he had made millions of dollars selling cannabis seeds in the US.

He agreed to plead guilty to a single charge and accept a five year sentence instead of standing before a jury and possibly getting fifty years.