EMERY PALS PLEAD GUILTY TO POT COUNT

SEATTLE, WA. (CP) -- Two former employees of Vancouver's
self-proclaimed Prince of Pot have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to
manufacture marijuana.

The U.S. Attorney's Office says Michelle Rainey and Gregory Keith
Williams, both of Vancouver, have pleaded guilty.

Thirty-eight-year-old Rainey and 54-year-old Williams were charged
along with pot advocate Marc Emery in 2005 to selling seeds over the
Internet. A former Londoner, Emery is scheduled for an extradition
hearing in Vancouver on June 1.

The U.S. Attorney says that under the terms of the plea agreement,
they'll recommend sentences of two years' probation at a sentencing
hearing on July 17.

The office says that between 2003 and 2005, Rainey mailed marijuana
seeds and growing instructions to customers -- 75% of whom live in the U.S.

Officials say Williams handled phone orders and sold seeds to
customers coming into Emery's store in Vancouver and on several
occasions in 2004, sold some to a U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration undercover agent.