"There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that supresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law."
- Kurt Huber,
[The head of White Rose], killed by the Nazis in 1943.
Marc Emery Open Thread DWR
Prince of Pot’s Sentence
Reeks of Injustice and Mocks Our Sovereignty
Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
Emery’s Jail Term Longer Than for Some Violent Crimes [...]
It is a legal tragedy that in my opinion marks the capitulation of our sovereignty and underscores the hypocrisy around cannabis. [...]
He is being handed over to a foreign government for an activity we are loath to prosecute because we don’t think selling seeds is a major problem. [...]
“There isn’t a single victim in my case, no one who can stand up and say, ‘I was hurt by Marc Emery.’ No one.”
He’s right again.
Emery is facing more jail time than corporate criminals who defraud widows and orphans and longer incarceration than violent offenders who leave their victims dead or in wheelchairs.
Whatever else you may think of him — and I know he rankles many — what is happening to him today mocks our independence and our ideal of justice. continued...
And we have Karen Tandy’s own words to prove it.
DEA's Karen Tandy LTE Apr 01, 2006
A Drug Warmongers Toll on the Americas
DEA Release Admits Marc Emery Extradition Politically Motivated
The US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted on the day of Marc Emery's arrest that his investigation and extradition were politically motivated, designed to target the Marijuana Legalization organization that Emery spearheaded and ran for over a decade in Canada.
Jodie Emery Speaks Out on Her Husband's Imprisonment
Jodie Emery, Publisher and Editor of Cannabis Culture, hits the television airwaves to demand freedom for her husband Marc Emery, who was imprisoned yesterday for selling marijuana seeds.
Damn Them All by Loretta Nall
Yesterday my close friend and mentor Marc Emery was taken into custody in Vancouver, British Columbia to await extradition to the US for selling pot seeds over the internet from Canada.
~ Jodie Emery
U.S. DEA Finally Gets Its Man by Paul Armentano
Just over four years ago, former U.S. DEA administrator Karen Tandy announced to the world that her agency had struck “a significant blow … to the marijuana legalization movement” by indicting Canada’s so-called ‘Prince of Pot,’ Marc Emery. [...]
But lets not kid ourselves. Marc Emery was hardly a high level target because he sold marijuana seeds to the U.S. — a simple google search will yield dozens of listings of competitors that presently engage in similar activities. No, it wasn’t so much what Marc did [...] as it was what he did with his money that aroused the ire of U.S. anti-drug officials.
Vancouver.24hrs POLL:
Is it fair Marc Emery, be extradited to the United States
on charges of selling marijuana seeds? (right hand side)
Yes 42% * No 58% * 201 votes
Video: vancouver.24hrs *
Front Page: pdf
It’s all how you report it by Pete Guither
A couple days ago,
I gave you a bunch of links about the drug policy conference held in El Paso last week. With the last minute dropouts of the Drug Czar and the Border Czar, the conference had turned into a predominately reform-minded group, including LEAP, SSDP, local officials, and others, with admittedly varied views on the degree of reform, with the exception of one DEA rep.
continued...
This article gave some sense of that…
Pathetic
The Coalition for a Drug Free California had a daylong conference to discuss how to stop marijuana dispensaries.
Or don't even bother to report it...
Don't even recognize Ganjawar PoW's exist. Refugees flee from barbaric US authoritah, caging the sick and their health care providers. Canada ain't so quick to take them in like the draft dodgers. Stands by mum, snatching them from their hospital beds to extradite to jails in the states. For treating their illness or growing some plants, proven less harmful than what is legal. Vast Right Wingnut Reefer Worriers, Mad with intentions, get more favorable press from the, ah, "liberal" media. Banning research, commercials and ONDCP gag orders might be a hint. Coincidence this war pays so much. Corporate holdings in competition would never slant a free press to side with gobbledegook. Yet they do. For if they don't it might harm the message to the kids they hide behind like cowards... DdC
'Prince of Pot' Now 'Marijuana Martyr'
CN BC: Edmonton Journal 29 Sep 2009
There's More Collateral Damage
Than Victories in This War on Drugs
CN BC: Column: Morrow, Shayne Alberni Valley Times 29 Sep 2009
U.S. Drug War Invades Canada
CN BC: Editorial: Victoria Times-Colonist 29 Sep 2009
‘King of Pot’s’ Punishment Was No Surprise
Editorial, Nini's Daily Newt
US Arrests
Free Speech Leeched
The Case of Marijuana Possession and Policing
Sociology 101, Introduction to Sociology @QC
Readings for Fall 2009, Professor Levine
The Shafer Commission
After reviewing the scientific evidence, President Nixon's Shafer Commission said it was "of the unanimous opinion that marihuana use is not such a grave problem that individuals who smoke marihuana, and possess it for that purpose, should be subject to criminal prosecution."
Between 1969 and 1977, government appointed commissions in Canada, England, Australia, and the Netherlands issued reports that agreed with the Shafer Commission's conclusions. All found that marijuana's dangers had been greatly exaggerated. All urged lawmakers to drastically reduce penalties for marijuana possession, or eliminate them altogether.
KEEP MARCHING, POT CRUSADER SAYS by Daniel Nolan
(Source:Hamilton Spectator) 10 Mar 2006 Ontario
Marc Emery DWRf:Mar 22, 2006
The Prince Of Pot By Cathy Olian
Emery on 60 Minutes DWRf:Mar 12, 2006
Marc Emery Roots for Ron Paul DWRf:Nov 01, 2007
Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats 12/24/03
Ideology Trumps Science
in the Harper Government’s “New” Drug Policy 8 October 2007
