Prince of Pot surrenders

Canadian activist Marc Emery, also known as the ‘Prince of Pot’ was taken into police custody on September 28, and now awaits extradition to the US, where he faces a five year prison sentence.

He has sold millions of marijuana seeds around the world through the internet over the past decade. And while the Canadian government was fully aware of his business and did not have any problems with it (they happily collected taxes on his income), the DEA wasn’t so tolerant and decided to arrest him and ask Canada to extradite him.

Emery was arrested in summer 2005 at the behest of the U.S. government, who wanted to extradite him for selling seeds to Americans.

Earlier this year Marc cut a deal with the US government to keep two of his friends and former employees from prison.

Some more facts that prove the idiocy of his arrest and extradition:

Marc Emery is a Canadian citizen who never went to the USA as a seed seller.
Marc Emery operated his seed business in Canada at all times, with no American branches or employees.
Marc Emery declared his income from marijuana seed sales on his income tax, and paid over $580,000 to the Federal and Provincial governments from 1999 to 2005.
Marc Emery has never been arrested or convicted of manufacturing or distributing marijuana in Canada, as he only sold seeds.
Marc Emery gave away all of the profits from his seed business to drug law reform lobbyists, political parties, global protests and rallies, court litigation, medical marijuana initiatives, drug rehabilitation clinics, and other legitimate legal activities and organizations.

Read more on Marc's website CannabisCulture.

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Joe - 2009-09-30 22:04:36

+13

a good good man going down for all the wrong reasons... the DEA were wrong to extradite Howard Marks, and he actually dealt in thousands of tonnes of weed... but this man is a noble and charitable hero.
a sad story.

badsign - 2009-10-02 00:26:54

i think its our time for all ppl who smoke any kind of weed, or are in any way interested in civil rights to fight against the usa and their policy to make this world a police state, while they kill and degrade everything thats pure, they actually are protecting the bigcompanys, seed herbicide medicine companys, that loose money because of ppl like us who want to grow our own plants drugs or not, they want to destroy the normal dna and plant nature, to make one season crops so everybody is in their hands like slaves, working for them, buying for them, its just a process of inslavering us... mark emery is the prove...if they can make mark emery go into usa jail, they can come into europeen soil andgrab us, without any protection, they make europe dance to their tones... this is just red flag, if we dont get together organize and fight this now, its matter time before europe is just like usa, a police state, were companys choose the lider, were the lider as an agenda, to make enforce the companys laws into civil life, our rights and everything that life should be about, freedom, family, peace is going to be a shadow of the past, its sad thatppl only wake up when the cops bangin on their front door, if u dont care about mark, dont move or take action "mark", and all the marks of this world wont move a finger when u get arrested, oryourcivilrights are denied,or usa uses their police orarmy force to enforce their real laws and nature: a companys moved and enforced country, the sickthing is that your tax and mine are paying the hammer that smash us, since companys make laws but upay the enforcement and this is just fucked up, ppl should not pay tax, until the society made to serve our interests not the companys ones...

GREENGONE - 2009-10-05 23:28:44

We Must All Band TOGETHER AND FREE MARC EMERY before we all become the next victom of this pitiyfull war! IF YOU CARE AT ALL LET US BEAT THE SYSTEM AND SWASH THE STATE!

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Joe - 2009-09-30 22:04:36

badsign - 2009-10-02 00:26:54

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