CANADIAN BROADCASTER PROMOTES THE HIGH LIFE WITH 'POT-TV'

Vancouver-- It gives a whole new meaning to the term smoke screen.

Broadcast from a basement in British Columbia, Pot-TV has been getting
25,000 hits a month since it began producing a daily marijuana news show
and other programs over the Internet in the spring.

"B.C., as you probably know, is the heartland of cannabis culture in North
America," said Chris Bennett, one of five full-time employees and host of
Pot-TV's Burning Shiva, an exploration of the cultural use of cannabis
throughout history.

Viewers can tune into The Big Toke, a cannabis comedy hour, The Grow Show
with Marijuana Man, Cannabis Common Sense, or Shake 'n' Bake, a cooking
show that puts a whole new spin on baked goods.

Pot-TV also offers the Healing Herb Hour to discuss medical uses for
marijuana and Yours in Defense, a legal discussion hosted by a
Colorado-based lawyer.

Marijuana advocate Marc Emery has spent $220,000 since the beginning of the
year to get Pot-TV up and running, "and it produces no revenue," he said.

Mr. Emery supports the station the same way he supported his Cannabis
Culture magazine until it began to break even a few years ago---by selling
marijuana seeds.

"I'm the worlds most famous and well known marijuana seed seller." said Mr.
Emery, who makes more than $1 million a year that way.

His basement on the Sunshine Coast has been converted into a studio with
fifteen computers, cameras, and microphones. Programs and news items come
in from around the world.

Mr. Emery would like to have mainstream advertisers to fund the station.

But Pot-TV is too controversial for the mainstream, he said.

Mr. Emery is no stranger to controversy. Crusading for cannabis is his life.

The magazine Cannabis Culture is occasionally banned, most recently in
Timmins Ont. He is the candidate for the marijuana party in the upcoming
federal election.

Mr. Emery said he is doing nothing illegal with Pot-TV. Police aren't sure
about that.

"It's supposed to be against the law to possess or distribute information
that helps people to use drugs, but when the law was made we certainly
didn't know websites existed yet," said Sgt. Chuck Doucette of the RCMP
drug awareness section in Vancouver.