Who is Marc Emery?
• Marc Emery is a Canadian cannabis activist. He is the leader of the British Columbia Marijuana Party, publisher and editor of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and runs Cannabis Culture Headquarters retail store and Pot-TV video network. He ran a popular marijuana seed business called “Marc Emery Direct Seeds” from 1994 to 2005.
• Marc Emery has been known as a bookseller and activist in Canada for 30 years, fighting against censorship laws and other social issues long before he became a drug law reform activist.
• Marc Emery has been a media figure for 20 years with regards to marijuana and drug law reform. He is very well known to Canadian, American and international news media organizations.
• Marc Emery never grew or sold marijuana, only the seeds.
• Marc Emery never went to the USA and operated his seed business only in Canada at all times.
• Marc Emery operated his business in full transparency since its inception. He sent a copy of his magazine Cannabis Culture to media outlets and each Member of Parliament in Canada for years. The magazine had pages of seed catalogue listings.
• Marc Emery donated all of the profits from his seed business to drug law reform lobbyists, political parties, global protests and rallies, lawyers and court cases, medical marijuana initiatives, drug rehabilitation clinics, grassroots media, and many other legitimate legal activities and organizations.
• Marc Emery helped found or support the United States Marijuana Party, US state and Canadian provincial political parties, and international political parties.
• 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.
• The US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted numerous times in a press release from Administrator Karen Tandy that his arrest was based on his drug legalization funding and efforts – a copy of that political document can be read and viewed online at www.NoExtradition.net ?
What’s happening to Marc Emery?
Marc Emery ran "Emery Direct Seeds", a marijuana seed business, in downtown Vancouver BC and online for over ten years. Marc wanted to be the main benefactor of the marijuana movement, with the goal to end prohibition across North America and the world.
In July 2005, the US Justice Department requested Canada extradite Marc to the USA to be charged with conspiracy to produce marijuana, conspiracy to traffic marijuana, and conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime – all charges that imply Marc grew marijuana to make money, even though he only sold seeds and gave all the money away.
Marc was facing ten-year mandatory minimums on each charge, with possible life imprisonment in US federal prison. After his co-accused made plea deals for 2 years probation, Marc decided to make a plea deal for a 5-year sentence in the US federal system.
Canada’s Justice Minister is extraditing Marc to the USA, even though hundreds of thousands of people believe that he should not be punished at all. Most people are offended that a Canadian can be charged and imprisoned in a foreign country for the act of selling seeds through the mail – and even more people believe that, if Marc is to be imprisoned at all, he should serve his time in Canadian prison.
Marc is trying to get transferred home to Canada, so please help him! FREE MARC EMERY!
Go to www.CannabisCulture.com for more information.
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