EMERY'S TREATMENT UNJUST

Marc Emery is a Canadian who never went to the U.S., and never grew
or sold marijuana. He sold only cannabis seeds in Canada, did it
openly, paid taxes on all income and used the profits to fund
political activism. Vancouver police tried to have him charged in
2003, but the Crown declined, so they worked with the Drug
Enforcement Administration to indict him in the U.S. The DEA press
release about Marc's July 2005 arrest bragged it was "a significant
blow to the marijuana legalization movement" because hundreds of
thousands of dollars of Emery's profits are known to have been
channelled to marijuana legalization groups in the U.S. and Canada.
U.S. authorities offered him a plea deal to allow him to serve his
time in Canada if he was charged here, but the Conservative
government refused. Marc then agreed to a five-year plea deal in the
U.S. to avoid a life sentence. The justice minister's decision to
extradite Marc to the U.S. is unjust. If he broke the law in Canada,
he should be tried and sentenced in Canada, not sent to a foreign
country to be punished under much harsher laws.

Jodie Emery

Vancouver

(Emery's made himself poster boy of the legalization movement.)