B.C. 'PRINCE OF POT' STARTS HIS JAIL TIME

Canada's self - proclaimed "Prince of Pot" was escorted out of B.C.
Supreme Court and into jail Monday to await extradition to the U.S.,
where he is to serve up to five years in prison for shipping
marijuana seeds across the border.

Marc Emery, 51, was indicted in 2005 along with two associates on
drug and money-laundering charges stemming from a lucrative
mail-order pot-seed business run out of Emery's Vancouver book and
paraphernalia shop, which also doubled as B.C.'s Marijuana Party headquarters.

Two charges Emery faced - conspiracy to distribute marijuana and
conspiracy to engage in money laundering - were dropped in exchange
for his guilty plea on the charge of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana.

He has agreed to a five-year imprisonment plea bargain in connection
with his $3-million a year marijuana seed catalogue business, where
most of his customers were American.

As Emery left the tiny courtroom, his wife Jody wept in the public
gallery while a crowd of the cannabis crusader's followers chanted:
"Free Marc Emery!"

As he was led away, he yelled: "I love you Jody Emery. Plant the
seeds of freedom; overgrow the government!"