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Prince Of Pot Says His Empire Is Crumbling
Keith Fraser | The Province | 8/26/2005

Province British Columbia

Marijuana activist Marc Emery says about a dozen of his employees have fled their jobs or been laid off since he was arrested and held for extradition to the United States.

The so-called Prince of Pot says there are only five or six paid employees left at his magazine, store and TV program.

He said the workers who left were afraid of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, which ran an undercover operation against his marijuana seed-selling business.

"All three people who are the graphic artists on the magazine kind of ran off," he said outside the courthouse. "The reason is when the DEA says your boss is the No. 1 crime kingpin around the world, when I'm bigger than the Hells Angels, when they make me sound like the most important person, it makes people nervous."

Emery, Gregory Keith Williams, 50, and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, 34, who are all out on bail, made brief appearances in court with their lawyer, John Conroy.

Outside court, Emery, who is charged with selling seeds to U.S. grow-ops and money-laundering, said the group needs more legal help but is strapped for cash.

"We'd like to have four or five lawyers on our case but they charge on average of about $300 an hour," he said. "Three lawyers to show up in court for an afternoon would cost approximately $3,000.

"Substantially, the money raised [so far], the $10,000, got eaten up on legal bills, used up in the first week getting bail."

Emery, Williams and Rainey-Fenkarek next appear in court Sept. 16.

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Buzzby

You'd think that the "leader of the marijuana people around the world" wouldn't have so much trouble raising some cash from his supporters.

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BC.Buddy

Yeah, the D.E.A. is really good at cutting off a real threat before it happens huh?

Suppose it's because marijuana activists completely dismiss eachother whenever one needs help the most.

Maybe if every activist could realize that Buzzby's way of activism is the best, we could all create one team. Until then, do not support those annoying, gready capitalists! They're in it for themselves, not the cause!



UNITE THE CLANS!
Adopt Buzzby's Way Of Activism!
Believe The Other Ways Are Counter Productive

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narc emery

A few words (not of my own) for BC Buddy on Mr. Emery's situation:
"A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he is astounded that he experiences suffering. - Gautama Buddha"

And a few more for Buzzby on his seemingly attenuated disposition regarding Mark Emery:
"Compassion is what makes our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. And it is the foundation of a good heart, the heart of one who acts out of a desire to help others. Through kindness, through affection, through honesty, through truth and justice toward all others we ensure our own benefit. This is not a matter for complicated theorizing. It is a matter of common sense.

There is no denying that consideration of others is worthwhile. There is no denying that our happiness is inextricably bound up with the happiness of others. There is no denying that if society suffers we ourselves suffer. Nor is there any denying that the more our hearts and minds are afflicted with ill-will, the more miserable we become. Thus we can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion."

From: Ethics for the New Millenium His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Riverhead Books, 1999

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