Marc Emery
FameRank: 6

"Marc Scott Emery" is a Canada/Canadian Cannabis (drug)/cannabis Legality of cannabis/activist, entrepreneur, and politician. Often described as "'the Prince of Pot"', Emery has been a notable advocate of international cannabis policy reform. He has been active in the New Democratic Party, the Freedom Party of Canada, the Unparty, and the Marijuana Party of Canada, as well as the British Columbia Marijuana Party, and the Green Party of British Columbia.

As a political libertarianism/libertarian, Emery has also protested against Sunday shopping/Sunday shopping laws, Obscenity/obscenity laws, political endorsement of sporting events, Censorship in Canada/Canadian censorship, and several taxes.

Emery has been jailed several times, most notably in 2009 when he served a five-year sentence in a United States federal prison for selling mail-order cannabis seeds into the US.

Emery lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife Jodie Emery.

More Marc Emery on Wikipedia.

[He also alleges that those people are now being sent letters by drug enforcement authorities in a surreptitious move to entrap them.] These people are being set up to be busted in their own homes, ... They should be very alarmed.

259

A Nazi-like military organization.

226

Everybody took the money, from the income tax departments representing the province and the federal government.

193

I am blessed by what the DEA has done. I'd rather see marijuana legalized than me being saved from a U.S. jail.

185

He is selling out an exemplary Canadian citizen to appease their war on drugs.

176

His intent is to stop the extradition and have me charged under Canadian law in a Canadian courtroom.

166

I'd much rather be in front of a Canadian jury in a Canadian court. It'd probably still keep me out of the seed business for the rest of my life, alas, but it certainly would lay people's fears of a sovereignty intrusion to rest.

147

I'm disappointed that [the Marijuana Party] is, in fact, running candidates. Unfortunately, they're all eccentrics, typically, and they're all doing it for alternative reasons- and can't possibly provide any benefit to the marijuana community by running.

69