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taylormaide

http://www.petitiononline.com/Emery/petition.html
plese sign and pass on or repost anywhere possible the dea is trying to extradite him for selling seeds he could face a life sentence and the death penalty if convicted

 

troublemaker_42

A death sentence? I don't think so.......check the facts before spreading lies to further your cause

urania3

Actually, under the 1994 Crime Act, the threshold for sentencing a death penalty in relation to marijuana is the involvement with the cultivation or distribution of 60,000 marijuana plants (or seedlings) or 60,000 kilograms of marijuana.

The death penalty is also possible for running a continuing criminal enterprise that distributes marijuana and receives more than $20 million in proceeds in one year, regardless of the weight of marijuana involved.

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Buzzby

Would those run concurrently or consecutively?

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Cassius

Dude, go easy on him, his heart's in the right place. No need to accuse him of lying.

Anyway, if YOU knew the facts you would know that in one of the first interviews after his arrest they discussed the fact that one of the charges he was facing was money laundering under the drug kingpin laws, which laws do allow for the death penalty. Not that it's likely, but they said it was possible.

Of course, so I don't stick my foot in my mouth, I'm almost positive that's what they said in the initial or immediately subsequent interview. If someone remembers the link to it (I'm in a bit of a hurry so no time to search) and I'm wrong, please correct me.

(see, wasn't that much nicer than accusing you of lying to further YOUR cause, of downplaying this issue? =P hehe)

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Buzzby

As I said early on in this discussion, the death penalty was never on the table for one very simple reason: Canada doesn't have the death penalty and wouldn't extradite someone who would be facing it.

king cola

I also read that if someone had a certain amount of marijuana they could face the death penalty, but i don't think anyone in the U.S was ever sentenced to death for it but i also don't think anyone ever actually grew 60,000 plants. In Emery's case he didn't grow the pot anyway, individual people bought those seeds and grew the pot themselves.

In my opinion sentencing a seed salesman to life in prison might be like a death sentence. The guy doesn't have a history of violence, he was selling seeds, they want to give him anywhere from 10 years to life in prison with a bunch of real criminals, people in there for assault, murder, and other crimes. He would be put into an environment where he could end up dead. I know that people go to jail for things like embezzlement and other non violent crimes, but those aren't victimless crimes. Selling a bunch of pot seeds is a victimless crime. Emery and a lot of other people are a victim because of marijuana prohibition.

urania3

The law doesn't state you yourself have to grow the marijuana, it's "involvement with the cultivation or distribution of 60,000 marijuana plants." Selling the seeds is involvement in the cultivation.

However, I'm confident Buzzby's right: Canada wouldn't extradite one of its own citizens to face the death penalty.

nacrypt

Yes, so sign the petition then help change the law!

troublemaker_42

I just don't like misinformation being spread, especially when its to promote a casue of some sort. As buzzby said, tere would be no extradition had the death penalty ever been considered. Personally, I think there's already way too much commotion about this case, and adding even more sensationalistic comments such as "he's facing the dath penalty" only adds to what i already see as an overblown case. He broke the law and has to face consequences.....just like you or I would have to. I see no reason why he should for some reason be exempt from the same consequences anyone else would face in his situation. Awe-inspiring (in some people's opinions) activist or not, he broke the law. Wne you break the law, and openly brag about doing so, a resonable person would expect consequences. the way I see it, this just seems to be another case of "celebs" expecting different treatment becasue of their status alone. Many don't agree, and thats fine, but I for one don't understand why there's all this drama surrounding this case. yeah, the law sucks, but until its changed, one shouldn't flagrantly break it, brag about it, and then expect sympathy for being charged. It just doesn't make sense to me, and I have a hard toime finding sympathy for anyone who does so. after all, if i was smoking a joint on the steps of the local PD, I really don't think anyone would feel too badly if I were arrested. they would say I lacked a lot of common sense for doing something so blatantly stupid......thats how I feel about Marc Emery