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InvisibleLe_Canard
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High Crimes, or a Tokin? Figure?
    #5417805 - 03/19/06 12:57 AM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Canadians find the ?Prince of Pot? harmless, but the DEA begs to differ


By Doug Struck

The Washington Post


"VANCOUVER - Sweet marijuana smoke tumbles down the steps from "the Vapor Lounge," a corner of Marc Emery's bookstore where customers toke up at will.

"We get high with everybody," Emery says, shrugging. "This is a pilgrimage spot, and people come here from all over the world. We get high."

Illegal? Yes.

So were the seeds he used to keep in a case in the store, with exotic names like Afghan Dream and Chemo Grizzly. So was the booming business he ran, complete with glossy seed catalogues describing the subtle and sublime nuances of his varieties. ("Nebula: Fruity flavor and scent. Transcendental buzz. Harvest outdoor.") So, for that matter, are the other marijuana businesses that have sprouted up in the block around his Vancouver bookstore. The street is nicknamed "Vansterdam," with pot-hazy cafes, headshops filled with pipes and bongs, and neon signs advertising illegal seed sales.

ntil recently, nobody much cared, it seemed. The police hadn't bothered to come around for eight years. Before that, they busted Emery for seed sales and raided him four times. But he just got fined -- once with "a nice speech from the judge saying what a nice person I was and how marijuana probably shouldn't be illegal," Emery says -- and the police stopped trying.

'Marijuana Seed Vendor'
In truth, Emery hated being ignored. He tried to stir up notoriety. Every year, he filled out his income taxes listing his occupation as "Marijuana Seed Vendor," paying heftily and honestly, he says, on his multimillion-dollar business. The Canadian Revenue Service never questioned him.

He told the Canada post office he was getting and sending his seeds through the mail. They never stopped delivery. He started the B.C. Marijuana Party, fielded 79 candidates in 2001, and ran repeatedly for local and federal offices. He never won.

He broadcast "Pot-TV" on the Internet, entertained politicians, and openly funded marches, lawsuits and marijuana-legalization drives from Arizona to Israel to Washington, D.C.

When it was too quiet at home, he would go somewhere to rattle up a pro-pot demonstration. He would light up a fat joint in front of a police station, daring the cops to arrest him.

Twenty-one times they did. Usually he got off, or was released after a night in jail, or fined. His longest stretch was 61 days in jail in 2004, ordered by a Saskatoon judge clearly irked at Emery's in-your-face apologia. No big deal, Emery says. He read the Bible behind bars.

Then came the DEA.

Emery figured something was up when a strange young woman pestered him to buy 10 pounds of pot. He refused. She bought some seeds at his store, asked for tips about how to hide them to go to the States, and left.

Eight days later, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and Vancouver police tromped into his store, ordered the customers out, taped paper over the windows and began hauling out computers and files. Emery, on the other side of Canada to speak near Halifax at the Atlantic Hemp Festival, was grabbed by six plainclothes policemen as he left a restaurant.

Emery is "one of the attorney general's most wanted international drug trafficking targets," the DEA in Washington crowed on July 29, 2005, announcing an extradition request for Emery and two employees. Emery's bust, the DEA said, was "a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade but also to the marijuana legalization movement."

And he thought trying to change the law was legal, Emery muses."

(More at MSNBC.Com)


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InvisibleBanez
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Re: High Crimes, or a Tokin? Figure? [Re: Le_Canard]
    #5418723 - 03/19/06 12:51 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

great read.. i dont understand how the DEA could do anything if hes in canada thou.. like i know people were buying from him and bringing it to the united states.. but thats not his problem.. unless he was sending the seeds in through the mail, but i didnt gather that

either way i like his attitude.


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InvisibleBoom
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Re: High Crimes, or a Tokin? Figure? [Re: Banez]
    #5418791 - 03/19/06 01:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Yeah he was mailing them to the US


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Re: High Crimes, or a Tokin? Figure? [Re: Le_Canard]
    #5418832 - 03/19/06 01:38 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

Quote:

"a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade but also to the marijuana legalization movement."




I wonder witch one they actually did it for....

I have my money on the marijuana legalization movement.


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InvisibleDNKYD
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Re: High Crimes, or a Tokin? Figure? [Re: Stonerguy]
    #5420392 - 03/19/06 09:12 PM (17 years, 10 months ago)

I'd bet my very life on the fact that they did it to damage the movement, not for the "trafficking". They aren't ignorant enough to believe busting one major seed vendor will do anything to deter marijuana cultivation.


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