POT AND POLITICS

My husband, Marc Emery, is a Canadian who never went to the United
States and never grew or sold marijuana ('Prince Of Pot' Sentenced To
Five Years In Prison - May 25). He sold only cannabis seeds for more
than a decade, paid taxes on all income and used the profits to fund
political activism.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's press release about Marc's
2005 arrest bragged that it was "a significant blow . to the
marijuana legalization movement" because "hundreds of thousands of
dollars of Emery' . profits are known to have been channelled to
marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and
Canada." It's all about politics, not about pot.

In 2008, American authorities offered a plea deal that would allow
Marc to serve his time in Canada if he was charged here, but the
Conservative government refused.

If Marc 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