'NAZI' REMARK WRONG: EMERY

OTTAWA - British Columbia marijuana crusader Marc Emery apologized
yesterday for referring to federal Justice Minister Irwin Cotler as a
"Nazi."

Mr. Emery, who faces potential extradition to the U.S. for selling
marijuana seeds, has compared the persecution of people involved in
marijuana culture to that experienced by Jews under the Nazi regime.

"I feel ashamed when my Jewish friends tell me they are ill at ease by
my using the terms Nazi or Holocaust when referring to this issue or
incident," Mr. Emery, who once wrote a biography of a Holocaust
survivor, wrote yesterday on his web site, cannabis.com.

It was in the "jail blog" that he wrote from a Saskatoon jail last
summer that he called Mr. Cotler a "Nazi-Jew." In an interview last
week, he reiterated that he thought Mr. Cotler was acting like a Nazi.

Yesterday, he wrote that his view has now been turned around and he
believes the Nazi vocabulary is not appropriate.