PRINCE OF POT WEDS AS EXTRADITION HEARING LOOMS

Guests, Happy Couple Celebrate With Joints

Marc Emery, Canada's so-called Prince of Pot, got married Sunday to a
woman who apparently doesn't mind the idea that her new husband could
spend large parts of their marriage in court or in jail as part of
his mission to legalize marijuana.

"I will support him no matter what happens in any situation," Jodie
Emery, 21, said shortly after the wedding. "I'm just so happy right
now to be married to him."

She said she married Emery, who has been arrested 21 times, knowing
full well he may spend many years in a U.S. jail.

Emery, 48, heads the B.C. Marijuana Party and publishes Cannabis
Culture magazine. He is currently charged with selling marijuana
seeds to Americans through the mail, conspiracy to manufacture pot
and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.

He was arrested last July along with Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek and
Greg Williams after police raided Emery's pot paraphernalia store in
Vancouver following an 18-month investigation by the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Administration.

The wedding ceremony took place under a white tent in Vancouver's
Queen Elizabeth Park where about 100 guests sat in suits and dresses
continually passing around joints.

Blue sunny skies and a garden full of flowers were the backdrop for
the nuptials.

After the ceremony the bride, wearing a long, white strapless wedding
dress, lit up what she called a "wedding doobie."

The Emerys then shared, in front of a crowd of media, their first
joint as husband and wife, inhaling the smoke and then kissing each other.

"I am so lucky to be married to such a young and beautiful woman," said Emery.

The activist said he'll continue to challenge the Americans and their
war on drugs. Emery claims to be the first marijuana seed vendor to
sell seeds directly over the Internet. His website, Marc Emery
Direct, sold seeds to anyone in the world.

Over 10 years, Emery claims to have sold about $15 million worth of
seeds. He has said his lawyers told him he has a 98 per cent chance
of being extradited. A date for the extradition hearing will be set
Aug. 21 in B.C. Supreme Court.