marc emery pinched!

[latewood]

Thanks guys, I wish I could make it to the sushi bar...I just get pissed when somebody throws everybody in a barrel and puts a label on it...And I would be the first one to get in line to say Leave Marc Emery alone. Maybe this will wakeup the silent majority that has to take it on the chin everytime some pharmaceutical co. wants to put out new drugs! I also truly believe that we would all be speaking german or russian if the US always just stayed out of it! "take a moment" God Bless all the fallen hero's ...peace latewood

[OR Freebird]

Might I point out that Bush wasn't really elected, he stole the first election. Nevertheless, for a one time partier he has turned out to be a major letdown. Bring back Clinton.

Anyway, I didn't vote for him.

Sorry to hear about Mark. Don't know what his gig was, but I hate to see anyone go down for anything pot related. Hope you Canadians rise up and say bud is good, god save the bud -- and they let him go.

[OR Freebird]

Here's a summary of the charges I clipped from cannabisculture.com:

In a major press conference held in Seattle, American officials accused Emery of "conspiracy to produce marijuana and distribute marijuana seeds, and money laundering."

The DEA and other agencies are claiming that by selling seeds to pot-growing Americans, Emery engaged in a criminal enterprise with the growers. In the eyes of his accusers, providing marijuana seeds is the same as selling marijuana produced from those seeds.

"Their activities resulted in the growing of tens of thousands of marijuana plants in America," claimed US federal attorney Jeff Sullivan. "[Emery] was involved, allegedly, in an illegal distribution of marijuana in [the United States.] He is a drug dealer."

[OR Freebird]

And a final quote from US Emery seed orderers:

Of particular interest for customers of Emeryâ??s seed site is the DEA claim that they have traced Emeryâ??s seeds to illegal grows in Indiana, Florida, California, Tennessee, Montana, Virginia, Michigan, New Jersey and North Dakota.

While it is not known if these claims are accurate, or what action if any the DEA intends to take against people who have grown marijuana using Emery seeds, prudence would dictate that people who have ordered from Emery during the past two years should consider whether they might be a target of investigations, especially if they are involved in large-scale commercial cultivation.

[Ganj]

You are so right, who is next? Seedsdirect?

Canada must speak out and stop this, if we do not, your government will be no better than Americas. Do you want Canada to be Americas bitch?

It's ok to say no to AMerica, I am sure they will only invade you to change you if you stand up to them.

Do as they say Canada, you don't want their troops in your country so be their bitch... either way you loose your freedom and rights to be a country as you see fit. Why should you run your country when America can do it for you?


STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY AND DON'T BLAME AMERICA, LET AMERICA KNOW YOU ARE CANADIANS WITH YOUR OWN LAWS AND YOU WONT BE DICTATED

think about it, man. do you think canada could really do it by themselves? i'm ashamed of all countries who have allowed america to come in and ruining their culture. the point is, canada, along with the other countries that have america on their side, made the choice to be watched over by america. if something was to go wrong in your country, america would come to your aid. i guess the canadian government failed to realize that their marijuana policies would not be put up with by the stricter, america.

i blame no one else, but marc emery. you know what your getting into by allowing america citizens to purchase marijuana seeds from you. don't get me wrong, i appreciate his candidness, but it wasn't a good choice.

that's my two cents.

[latewood]

no shit freebird, stole it...i found interest in this part of your replyr what action if any the DEA intends to take against people who have grown marijuana using emery seeds.
You mean alledgedly bought seeds, don't you? You know it is the pharmaceutical co's that control's the issue!....Can i get a witness???

[Ousted]

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I thought buying/selling/possessing marijuana seeds in America was legal. I could be wrong...and if this Marc Emery fiasco is any indicator I probably am...But all this time I thought thats why companies like Emery Seeds were able to market to Americans.

[Psycho4Bud]

Pot Activist Faces Extradition

Vancouver â?? Marc Emery, Canada's most prominent pro-marijuana activist, is facing the possibility of life imprisonment in the United States for selling marijuana seeds over the Internet to U.S. customers.

In a stunning development, RCMP officers arrested the self-proclaimed â??Prince of Potâ?� in Halifax yesterday after a U.S. federal grand jury indicted him on charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana seeds, conspiracy to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

The charges stem from Mr. Emery's lucrative sale of marijuana seeds, an activity he has carried on from his Vancouver base with minimal legal penalty for 10 years.

â??I've sold about four million seeds,â?� the marijuana mogul boasted in a 2002 media interview. â??Unlike most other seed dealers, I use my real name and I'm easy to find.â?�

U.S. drug-enforcement officials said they will seek Mr. Emery's extradition from Canada to stand trial in Seattle, where conviction on either of the marijuana charges carries a minimum prison term of 10 years to a maximum of life.

Special Agent Rodney Benson of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said Mr. Emery, 47, has distributed millions of cannabis seeds to U.S. customers over the years, earning as much as $3-million annually.

â??I am pleased to announce that he is out of business as of today,â?� Mr. Benson told a Seattle news conference. â??His overblown arrogance and abuse of the rule of law will no longer be on display. Like other drugs, marijuana harms the innocents.â?�

By mid-afternoon, an attempt to access Mr. Emery's business on the Internet produced a message, in large red letters: â??Emery Seeds has been raided by the DEA and is shut down.â?�

The arrest of Mr. Emery, also head of the B.C. Marijuana Party, was accompanied by a simultaneous Vancouver Police raid of party headquarters on the edge of the city's drug-ravaged Downtown Eastside.

Police were acting on a search warrant signed by Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm of the B.C. Supreme Court, who agreed there were reasonable grounds to believe that the three conspiracy charges â??over which the United States of America has jurisdiction have been committed.â?�

Mr. Emery's supporters, four of whom were carted away for lying down in front of a police van, were outraged by the day's events.

Puffing openly on marijuana, they pounded drums, chanted at passing motorists and brandished signs damning the DEA for intruding into Canada.

â??I was completely shocked,â?� said well-known pot activist David Malmo-Levine, who took his fight against Canada's marijuana laws to the Supreme Court of Canada.

â??It's appalling for the U.S. to come in here and try to police our country. To arrest Canadians to face their penalties and their laws is completely wrong,â?� he said, standing in front of an upside down U.S. flag with the words â??DEA Go Awayâ?� on it.

Two other marijuana activists were also arrested in Vancouver on the same charges as Mr. Emery, at the request of U.S. authorities yesterday â?? Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek, 34, and Gregory Williams, 50.

Television footage showed an undercover officer wearing a balaclava bundling Mr. Williams into a police vehicle.

The extradition hearing is certain to highlight a clash between the Draconian drug laws of the United States and Canada's more benign approach to marijuana use.

Only last week, the B.C. Court of Appeal rejected a two-year jail term for a convicted marijuana grower as excessive, while Ottawa is moving to decriminalize possession of small amounts of pot.

Assistant U.S. attorney Jeff Sullivan said there is no chance of marijuana being legalized in the United States. â??Marijuana is not a benign drug. There are more kids in treatment for addiction to marijuana than for all other illegal drugs combined,â?� Mr. Sullivan claimed.

Last year, Mr. Emery spent two months in a Saskatoon jail for passing a joint around at a pro-pot rally, the only time he has been sent to prison for any of his 11 marijuana-related convictions in Canada.

U.S. officials praised the â??outstanding co-operationâ?� of Canadian law-enforcement agencies in their 18-month investigation of Mr. Emery's seed business, 75 per cent of which they said was aimed at Americans.


If I have bought from Emery I would DEFINATELY be hiding some shit right now! Not later...NOW!!! This is complete and total bullshit and for what it's worth, as an American, you have my appologies!!!!!

[BlueCat]

This is complete and total bullshit and for what it's worth, as an American, you have my appologies!!!!!
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Right on Psycho!
I sent 25 dollars to the cause that's all I could afford...but at least it is something...Sorry Canada.......

[KronicKing]

sorry folks,i didn't vote bush(or at all im under 18)but my father did,but what little i can do i do,america has no right to be noseing in canada's business,but for some reason i don't think marc will be spend ing much,if any,time in american jail or canadian for that matter,to be honest i think his arrest has improved things in a way,now the ameican people and representitives have to adress the issue i think if some good reform comes out of this marc emery won't mind spending a little time in jail,he's willing to take one for the team,i know it's not much but beleive me i'll never vote for a president with veiws like most republicans,sorry world,but i'm moveing to canada when i can IF they tell america to fuck off